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viii, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm "The inspiring story of one man's fight against his wrongful incarceration and his eventual triumph--both inside and outside the boxing ring. In the late 1970s, Dewey Bozella [age 24] was wrongfully convicted of murdering Emma Crapser, a ninety-two-year-old resident of Poughkeepsie, New York. Sentenced to twenty years to life in prison, Bozella fiercely maintained his innocence throughout his ordeal at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, and even refused the prosecutor's offer of freedom in exchange for an admission of guilt. But in 2009, more than a quarter century later, Dewey Bozella would reclaim his identity and his humanity when his conviction was vacated. In this raw and uplifting memoir, Bozella takes us through the trials, tribulations, and joys of his life inside prison and, eventually, as a free man. While at Sing Sing, he took up boxing to channel his anger, and eventually became the prison's light-heavyweight champion. Bozella also met and married the love of his life from behind bars, lost countless parole hearings, and spent agonizing time on a cell block with both his brother's murderer and, it turned out, the true

Author

Dewey Bozella with Tamara Jones

Publisher

New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062208156

Subjects

Social Science, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.4 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14