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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.
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.
Mission & Values. The Innocence Project works to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
The Innocence Project provides all legal representation for free. While we rely on charitable donations to support our work, we never solicit money for our services from our clients. We've helped free more than 240 innocent people from prison.
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.
Stories of justice and hope for the nine individuals that were exonerated by the Innocence Project, freed and released in 2020.
Every exoneration achieves justice for an innocent person and pinpoints how the system needs to change. The lessons we learn from every client inform the policy reform efforts we seek nationwide. Our 2019 reform wins. Seven people were freed by the work of the Innocence Project this year.
The innocence community took action worldwide to support former clients, share the stories of exonerated people, stop an execution and more. See our community in action
We've helped free more than 240 innocent people from prison. Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement.
Fighting for accountability, justice reform, and ending wrongful convictions. In this year of upheaval, from a global pandemic to widespread protests against police brutality, the pursuit of justice and equality has never been more urgent.