SAN ANTONIO – Netflix and acclaimed director Ava DuVernay have agreed to collaborate on a new crime series about the "Central Park Five" for the online streaming service, the director's latest look into America's criminal justice system.
DuVernay already has worked with Netflix before, directing the documentary "13TH," about the U.S. prison system.
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This new five-episode limited series will follow each of the five teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of and incarcerated for a 1989 rape.
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Matias Reyes, a convicted serial rapist and murderer eventually confessed to the crime in 2002. DNA evidence corroborated his story.
The five men freed received a settlement of roughly $40 million after serving more than six years in prison.
Netflix said the series will begin in the spring of 1989 and follow the story until their exoneration.
The series debuts in 2019.
Thank you to the men and their families who entrusted me w/ their story. Great love + respect to Raymond, Kevin, Korey, Antron + Yusef. #CP5 pic.twitter.com/7vVQg5XYs2
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 6, 2017
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