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Innocence Project

A network of men and women working in the legal system have created something called “The Innocence Project” which to date has exonerated 364 innocent people serving sentences for violent crimes with punishments ranging from death to life without parole.

How unregulated jailhouse informant testimony is harming justice The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. As the pace of DNA exonerations has grown across the country in recent […]

A network of men and women working in the legal system have created something called “The Innocence Project” which to date has exonerated 364 innocent people serving sentences for violent crimes with punishments ranging from death to life without parole. Read More »

What Happened to Kenny Waters After His Release?

Thanks to the flawed justice system in place, there are several innocent men and women incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Here’s the story of Kenny Waters and how the poor judgement of authorities lead to his wrongful imprisonment.  Kenny Waters spent 18 years of his life behind bars for a crime he did

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