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Support our work to strengthen and advance the innocence movement. We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
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Founded in 1992 by visionary attorneys Peter Neufeld and...
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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 .
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.
The Innocence Project is a nonprofit organization that uses DNA testing and other methods to free the wrongfully convicted and reform the criminal legal system. Explore the history of the Innocence Project from its founding in 1992 to its achievements in 2021, including exonerations, litigation, and advocacy.
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.
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).
