We've helped free more than 250 innocent people from prison. Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement.

This fall, the Innocence Project is revamping one of its popular programs to mark the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Week from October 25-31. The week recognizes the importance of pro bono, or ...

Since 1992, the Innocence Project has helped to free or exonerate more than 250 people who’ve collectively spent over 4,000 years wrongly incarcerated. With your support, we can do even more — donate ...

There are people whose work quietly improves a system. And then there are those rare few who remake the system entirely, leaving it more honest, more rigorous, and immeasurably more humane than how ...

The Innocence Project is not equipped to handle case applications or inquiries by email or over the phone. All case submissions and follow-up correspondence will be handled by mail or overnight ...

We've helped free more than 250 innocent people from prison. Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement.

In 1986, Jeffrey Pierce was wrongly convicted of rape and robbery he did not commit in Oklahoma. He was later exonerated in 2001. In May 2001, Jeffrey Pierce walked out of an Oklahoma prison after ...

On Jan. 30, 1985, an 18-year-old nursing home aide was accosted at knifepoint in the parking lot of a shopping center in Selden, New York. Two men forced her into the back seat of a car. One man raped ...

(September 5, 2023 — White Plains, NY) Leonard Mack was exonerated today nearly five decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in March 1976.

Eyewitness misidentification is a consistent and outsized contributor to wrongful convictions. Nationally, 69% of DNA exonerations — 252 out of 367 cases — have involved eyewitness misidentification, ...

An exonerated person is entitled to file a claim in civil court up to three years after the exoneration. The court can award damages between $30,000 and $60,000 per year the person was incarcerated.