He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On the morning of Oct. 3, 2025, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam walked out of Huntingdon State Correctional Institution, the Pennsylvania prison that had confined him for more than four decades. The 64-year-old had spent nearly his entire adult life behind bars for a murder he did not commit. His conviction had been vacated weeks earlier after a court found that prosecutors had concealed evidence that would have dismantled the state’s case. The Centre County district attorney formally withdrew all charges a day before his expected release.

But Vedam never made it home.

As he stood on the threshold of freedom, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were waiting. Acting on a decades-old deportation order, they detained him and transferred him to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, an ICE detention facility in central Pennsylvania.

His family, who had prepared to welcome him home, instead learned that Vedam would remain in custody — not as a prisoner of the state, but as a detainee of the federal government.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wrongfully-imprisoned-43-years-moments-143157561.html

[Marie Marie]

1. Mother Fuckers. This shit has got to stop!!!

[bsiebs]

2. You have to be a very sick person to willingly join in on that detention...

[SouthBayDem]

3. Non rehosted link to this story

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312442984.html

[erronis]

5. Thank you. I really wish more OPs would find the original source(s).

[SouthBayDem]

18. To be fair, Yahoo News has no paywall

Unlike many of the sites it licenses from. Its links do expire after a week or so, a likely condition of being able to rehost other sites’ work.

[littlemissmartypants]

21. The archive doesn't have a pay wall or registration requirement. ...

I wish more people would take the time to learn more about it. Especially, in Our Propaganda Age as we watch our information being Distorted and our Democracy Disappear.

❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

23. FYI

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20718943

[littlemissmartypants]

22. Archives, no gifting required. Preserved for the populace. ...

https://archive.ph/AgvQl

[beveeheart]

4. No words.

[BattleRow]

8. Takes a lot to leave me speechless..

[Fritz Walter]

6. ICEstapo at work here

The similarities between Germany’s Gestapo and ICE are alarming (to say the least)!

[Celerity]

7. At the heart of the current dispute lies a question of legal timing -- and humanity. Because Vedam was never formally

naturalized, his earlier drug conviction technically makes him deportable under U.S. immigration law. The wrongful murder conviction, now vacated, had kept him in state custody for decades, effectively freezing that process. With his exoneration, ICE argues that the original deportation order can now be executed.

[popsdenver]

9. ICE must be given

a quota AND a bonus for everyone they detain.......

SHOW NO MERCY.....period.......

Ugly Psychotic, sadistic Storm Trooper Goons, (AKA: Gestapo/SS)

[TommyT139]

26. "Bonus" for abductions, regardless of legality

... that's exactly what some of the abducted have reported.

[rubbersole]

10. The wrongful imprisonment ought to be worth millions by itself.

Taxpayers would have to pay for corrupt state prosecutor malfeasance. ICE will create tons of lawsuits by themselves. And they aren't the least bit concerned about any individual having consequences for their lawlessness. We're just getting started.

[JI7]

29. This was over 40 years ago

Most cases similar I have seen involve black men and it doesn't seem like they recieve anything when they finally get out.

[enigmania]

11. It's enough to make you cry.

[Fil1957]

12. The only reason I can think of them doing this to this guy is that it gives them pleasure. We're dealing with some

really sick fucks.

[Joinfortmill]

13. Horrible. Vedam, I prayed for him and said his name aloud.

[Prairie_Seagull]

14. Heartless, sadistic, boot licking and inhumane,

waste of skinsuit fuckers.

[Seinan Sensei]

15. The worm will turn

Tick tock Ice-holes

[patphil]

16. Again, ICE demonstrates the inherent evil in their actions.

It's interesting to note that evil only needs to have an "D" added at the front to spell Devil.

[twodogsbarking]

17. Many locals worked to clear him and now this. Justice for Subu.

[B.See]

19. lest we forget, they are acting AT THE BEHEST

of Trump, Vance, Miller, Bondi, Patel and the whole fascist LOT of em.

[JoseBalow]

20. India

"was born in India but arrived in the United States when he was 9 months old"

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Welcome to Florida. Home of the ...

Psychopath President Pedophile.

I can't wait to see the one book in his library, Mein Kampf.

And I keep reading that these goons representing the regime in the name of crime stopping "aren't even organized" when they control...

ALL OF OUR GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND WE'RE THE GOVERNMENT.

I'm beginning to think My Fellow Americans are not very smart or are terribly uninformed.

Thanks for the post, YMBL. ❤️

[DFW]

25. At long last, have you no decency?

On second thought, don’t answer that………

[VGuerra276]

27. Compensation for wrongful conviction

Some states have a law that award compensation for those who are adjudicated to be wrongfully convicted. In Texas it's about 80k a year. Check out the story ofwrongfullly convicted Michael Morton, who served over 20 years in prison before he was fully exonerated. Major key items of evidence were found to have not been turned over to the defense during the underlying trial. Morton's case changed the way the criminal defense system does business in Texas. Morton left prison a fairly wealthy man.

[JI7]

28. Has any non white person received this ?

[VGuerra276]

30. Richard Miles

Richard Miles. Read about him and how he was wrongfully convicted, spent years and prison, and how he used his compensation and talents once he was exonerated...to help others.

https://dallasdoinggood.com/miles-of-freedom-richard-miles-journey-to-redemption-and-joy/

And Latinas, too. A movie was made of their story, although one or some plead to a lesser included offense and did not receive the compensation. I believe the movie can be seen on you tube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_of_Salem:_The_Story_of_the_San_Antonio_Four

So yes, non-whites do receive the compensation but overcoming a conviction in Texas is extremely hard, and maybe harder now with newly elected judges to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, thanks to Paxton.