As the innocence community mourns the loss of Curtis Flowers, his legacy reminds us that the fight for criminal and racial ...

In order to be eligible to receive compensation for wrongful incarceration a person must: (1) Have been convicted by the state of one or more felony offenses, all of which the person was innocent, and ...

On May 9, 2023, nearly 26 years after he was arrested, Norberto Peets was exonerated of attempted murder and other charges arising from a 1996 shooting in Bronx County, New York. Mr. Peets had been ...

After serving 27 years in Texas prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Charles Chatman was proven innocent by DNA testing and freed in early 2008. He was 20 years old when he was arrested in 1981 and 47 ...

Sandra “Sandy” Hemme has spent more than four decades in prison for a crime that evidence supports she did not commit, making her the longest-known wrongly incarcerated woman in the U.S. Although Ms.

On Nov. 13, 1980, the body of Patricia Jeschke was found in the bedroom of her apartment on the east side of St. Joseph, Missouri. Ms. Jeschke was a secretary at the St. Joseph Public Library, and her ...

(April 13, 2026 — Grand Junction, CO) Today, the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office dismissed the double murder charges against James “Jimmy” Genrich’s related to a series of pipe bombings that ...

On May 24, 2023, Tyrone Day was exonerated by DNA testing of a sexual assault conviction in Dallas, Texas. He had spent more than 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. At about 2 a.m. on ...

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 ...

Several hours later, B.S. regained consciousness, called a neighbor, and left a message on the answering machine that “someone killed my grandmother.” She then walked to another neighbor’s house and ...

Ryan Matthews spent five years on Louisiana's death row for a crime he did not commit. Seventeen years old at the time he was arrested, Matthews was sentenced to death for the shooting death of Tommy ...

The following day, Alexandria Police Detective Barry Shiftic was assigned to investigate the crime. The victim described her assailant as a Black male who wore a gray sweatshirt, red shorts, and white ...