Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown University for its prison reform organization

Adnan Syed is now an employee of Georgetown University, the private university in Washington, D.C., announced Wednesday. Georgetown hired Syed, who was freed three months ago after 23 years in a Maryland prison, as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative. One of his responsibilities will be working with the initiative’s “Making an Exoneree” class, during which students reinvestigate decades-old wrongful convictions and create short documentaries about the cases to “help bring innocent people home from prison,” the university said.