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We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
The Innocence Project is the headquarters of the Innocence Network, a group of nearly 70 independent innocence organizations worldwide. One such example exists in the Republic of Ireland where in 2009 a project was set up at Griffith College Dublin .
About. Founded in 1992 by visionary attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform, using DNA and other scientific advancements to prove wrongful conviction. Innocence Project clients collectively spent more than 3,700 years wrongfully incarcerated.
Since 1992, we have helped free or exonerate hundreds of wrongfully convicted people. The cases here are considered closed and reflective of Innocence Project’s exonerated clients only.
Careful examination of the hundreds of exonerations has identified disturbing trends that contribute to wrongful convictions–misapplication of forensic science, eyewitness misidentification, police-induced false confessions, government misconduct and inadequate defense.
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.
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. Anthony Wright exonerated in 2016 in Pennsylvania (Photo: Kevin Monko).
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. Share.
The Innocence Project continues to have a significant impact on the individual lives of wrongfully convicted people and the larger public. Read more in our 2020-2021 annual report.
Stories of justice and hope for the nine individuals that were exonerated by the Innocence Project, freed and released in 2020.
