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Yusef Salaam working on novel about wrongful imprisonment

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – One of the former “Central Park Five” is teaming with an acclaimed children's author on a young adult novel with a personal theme — being wrongfully sentenced to prison.

Yusef Salaam and author Ibi Zoboi are working together on “Punching the Air,” according to Bray + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books.

The book comes out Sept. 1. Salaam was among five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were coerced into confessing to a rape they didn’t commit in 1989.

They were exonerated in 2002, but not before all had served prison time. They later received a multimillion-dollar settlement from New York City.

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