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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.
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.
Mar 28, 2024 · 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. Explore a sample of the demographics of our exonerated clients, as well as the factors that contributed to their wrongful convictions.
We've helped free more than 240 innocent people from prison. Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement. Through our work over the years, we identified several basic patterns and common reasons for wrongful conviction.
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.
The Innocence Project has since become an independent nonprofit and continues to stand at the vanguard of criminal legal system reform by restoring freedom for the wrongfully convicted, transforming the systems that unfairly incarcerated them, and advancing the innocence movement.
As of January 2020, the Innocence Project has documented over 375 DNA exonerations in the United States. Twenty-one of these exonerees had previously been sentenced to death. The vast majority (97%) of these people were wrongfully convicted of committing sexual assault and/or murder.
