Why Has the Civil Rights Community Never Embraced the Wrongfully Convicted?Are the wrongfully convicted invisible? The press all gathers when they get released, but generally ignores our struggle when we are imprisoned. This issue has been gnawing at me all the years I have worked on wrongful convictions: Why has the civil rights community ignored the wrongfully convicted? Talking with a small group of men who had served a hundred years in New York State prisons as a result of the Brooklyn DA and Det.