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It Could Happen To You-Coalition for Prosecutorial Integrity (ITCHY-CPI) works to Establish a New Culture of Accountability in Criminal Justice.
Anthony Ray Hinton is an Author, activist, and former death row inmate. Anthony was wrongfully convicted on two counts of murder in Alabama in 1985 and placed on death row to be executed. He was held on death row in solitary confinement for 28 years while...
CHICAGO — Seventeen people who collectively spent 380 years incarcerated following wrongful convictions linked to former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara are closer to receiving compensation after the Chicago City Council Finance Committee approved a...
Case after case has exposed the continued unreliability of our capital punishment system. Seven decades after Texas executed Tommy Lee Walker, a Dallas court delivered an overdue measure of justice. In January, the Dallas County Commissioners Court declared Mr. Walker innocent after...
Erie County's risk retention fund is running short due to record lawsuit payouts and settlements, prompting the Buffalo News to report on the county's financial strain.
Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials in the same Mississippi murder case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection, leading the Supreme Court to reverse his capital conviction in 2019, died at home this week in Winona, Miss. He was 56.
Join us to honor our 2026 Award recipients, The Fearsome Foursome for Freedom & Justice. Celebrate our shared commitment to justice at the It Could Happen To You Thirteenth Annual SERVANTS OF JUSTICE 2026 Awards Banquet and be part of honoring those who are shaping a brighter future for our state.
CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor who has been accused of misconduct over a failed attempt to bring felony charges against six protesters of the federal immigration crackdown in Chicago has resigned, saying she was being treated as a scapegoat after the case fell apart.
Q&A with Willie “Champ” Nesmith during The Innocence Conference 2026 held on October 3rd at the Kline School of Law, Drexel University, in Philadelphia.
MEDIA ALERT OCTOBER 2, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Friday, October 2, 2026 Contact: Theodore Friedman, tfriedm2@swarthmore.edu Innocence Conference 2026 DATE/TIME: Saturday, October 3, 11:00 AM–3:30 PM
In the face of legislative inaction, four people serving mandatory life for second-degree murder want the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to step in and open a pathway for sentences like theirs to be reconsidered.
Last week, The New York Times featured the celebration of my 20th anniversary of exoneration, with my photo on the cover.
As many of you know, the 20th anniversary of my release was on September 20. After 16 years of wrongful imprisonment, walking free was something I had spent years hoping for.
Wrongful Conviction Trauma Center expands its services with a residential program supporting women affected by wrongful conviction and incarceration. The Wrongful Conviction Trauma Center (WCTC), founded by exoneree Marilyn Mulero, held a...
A forensic DNA analyst whose trial testimony helped secure the 2002 conviction and death sentence of Ronald “Jeffery” Prible has now disavowed that testimony, adding new weight to Mr. Prible’s long-standing innocence claim in a case marked by...
Join us to celebrate our shared commitment to justice at the It Could Happen To You 13th Annual SERVANTS OF JUSTICE 2026 Awards Banquet and be part of honoring those who are shaping a brighter future for our state, October 22, 2026, at Westchester Manor in Hastings-On-Hudson, NY.
When someone is arrested, it can come down to their word against an officer’s in court. But what happens when the officer’s own conduct is in question, or when they’re under investigation themself? Experts indicate that Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who took...
Louisiana lawmakers unanimously agreed to increase the number of years a wrongfully incarcerated person could receive compensation in the most recent legislative session. But it was among the handful of bills Gov. Jeff Landry vetoed.
In the United States, the numbers paint a stark and undeniable picture of injustice. Black Americans make up approximately 13.6% of the U.S. population, yet they account for a staggering 53% of all documented exonerations since 1989.
When the restoration project for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool failed following a no-bid contract awarded to Atlantic Industrial Coatings — a company tied to President Donald Trump — the Trump administration faced a dilemma.
The Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission changes what appellate work is actually for — and it offers appeals lawyers on both sides of the border a working model of what error correction looks like when it’s designed on purpose.
The Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois Springfield has freed 34 innocent people who were convicted and imprisoned in Illinois for crimes they did not commit. Collectively, they lost 797 years of freedom. There are innocence organizations in 10 other countries and more than...
To understand the modern use of the death penalty in Georgia, it is necessary to begin with its historical foundations. Capital punishment in the United States has long been applied unevenly across racial groups, and Georgia’s history reflects this broader pattern:...
Elvis Brooks thought he had an airtight case when he applied for compensation from the state of Louisiana after he was wrongfully convicted in a fatal bar shooting that kept him in prison for more than four decades. The 69-year-old New Orleans native has never wavered in his claims of...
WASHINGTON — Felony murder laws allow people who neither killed nor intended to kill to be convicted of murder and, in dozens of states, sentenced to life without parole, according to a new report that calls for abolishing the doctrine nationwide and reconsidering sentences imposed under it.
It was Christmas Eve 2024 when a 14-year-old Black teen named Juwan Walker was shot to death inside a car in Delaware. His mother, Victoria Sewell, who was in the car with him, told police that two Black boys approached them, and one of them, wearing a surgical mask, opened fire.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Santa Clara County judge ordered a defendant released from custody on August 4th rather than imposing the additional jail time sought by prosecutors, emphasizing accountability, personal responsibility and rehabilitation as the defendant returned to the community.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — More than 150 formerly incarcerated Californians and their allies gathered at the state Capitol this week to argue that completing a criminal sentence should mean the end of punishment — not the beginning of decades of barriers to housing, employment and economic stability.
Greg Bright spent 27.5 years in prison before being exonerated in 2003. After proving his factual innocence, he began receiving wrongful conviction compensation from the state of Louisiana. Bright received a $190,000 lump-sum compensation payment in 2011, followed by...
After the Minnesota Attorney General's Office shut down its Conviction Review Unit last month, a group of advocates for those believed to be wrongly imprisoned for crimes is calling on state leaders to restore funding for the initiative.
