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We've helped free more than 240 innocent people from prison. Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement. Give Monthly Donate Once. We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
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Since the introduction of DNA testing in the 1980s, we have...
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Innocence Project, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit legal organization that is committed to exonerating individuals who have been wrongly convicted, through the use of DNA testing and working to reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
We've helped free more than 240 innocent people from prison. Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement. Founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform.
The Innocence Project works to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone. Our work is guided by science and grounded in anti-racism.
Stories of justice and hope for the nine individuals that were exonerated by the Innocence Project, freed and released in 2020.
Justice in 2019. Explore the stories of seven innocent people who were freed or exonerated this year. Read their stories. Archie Williams after being released from 36 years in Angola prison. (Tyler Kaufman for the Innocence Project)
Over more than two decades, we've helped restore liberty to hundreds of innocent people and reformed almost as many laws and judicial practices, protecting millions more. See our impact.
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