Korey Wise, now 46-years-old, recently purchased a $925,000, 803-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment in Harlem overlooking Central Park symbolically.

Despite the connection between Central Park and the many years he was wrongfully incarcerated he left many amazed with the symbolic purchase.

"No money could bring the life that was missing or the time that was taken away," Wise said in Sarah Burns' 2012 'The Central Park Five' interview.

Back in 1989, Korey Wise along with Antron McGray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, and Yusef Salaam were pressured into false confessions and were convicted for the rape and beating of a 28-year-old woman in New York’s Central Park.

All of them spent around seven years in prison, except for Wise who was the eldest. He was tried as an adult for being 16 at the time and suffered the most abuse behind bars for more than 12 years, before the real murderer and rapist, Matias Reyes, confessed to the crime.

In 2014, NYC awarded the men $41 million, without an apology to the mistakes and incompetence that led to their conviction. (Via VIBE)

According to Oxygen, Korey Wise was the most vulnerable one from the group, and wasn't even a suspect to begin with. Wise reportedly only went to the the police station to support his friend Salaam when police were questioning him. Sarah Burns' book "The Central Five" mentions that Wise also had hearing problems and a learning disability.

Ava DuVernay's 'When They See Us' miniseries revisited and put a spotlight on the 1989 case. DuVernay's series also brought attention to how police, the media, and Donald Trump were part of their wrongful conviction, according to VIBE.

Today Korey Wise continues to bring awareness as a public speaker and criminal justice activist in New York City. He also donated $190,000 back in 2015 to the University of Colorado's Innocence Project.

Source: New York Post