Wisconsin Innocence Project
Wisconsin Innocence Project
The Wisconsin Innocence Project (WIP) seeks to exonerate the innocent and to train the next generation of legal leaders. They only accept cases from individuals who are actually innocent. Therefore, they only take cases in which they expect to find some form of new evidence. WIP does not represent individuals who raise only procedural or […]
Family Law Project
The Family Law Project (FLP) is a University of Wisconsin (UV) – Madison Law School’s in-house clinic, operated at the Frank J. Remington Center. Students in the Family Law Project work with incarcerated people to establish and maintain their family relationships and to assist them with problems arising from the intersection of incarceration and family […]
Florida Justice Institute
The Florida Justice Institute (FJI) is a public interest law firm that conducts civil rights litigation and advocacy in the areas of prisoners’ rights, housing discrimination, disability discrimination, and other areas impacting the poor and disenfranchised. This includes cases for persons currently or formerly incarcerated in a Florida prison or jail involving mistreatment while incarcerated, […]
Georgia Innocence Project
Georgia Innocence Project (GIP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping individuals who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit. The Project works to secure post-conviction DNA testing for people incarcerated in Georgia where DNA analysis could prove guilt or innocence and adequate DNA testing was not available at trial. GIP attorneys and […]
Hawai’i Innocence Project
The Hawai’i Innocence Project is a law clinic at the William S. Richardson School of Law and anon-profit with a mission to free prisoners who are factually innocent but who have been wrongfully convicted. The project fights for the freedom of those who have been wrongfully convicted and advocates for the prevention of future injustice. The Hawai’i […]
The Exoneration Project
The Exoneration Project is a free legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School dedicated to the representation of the wrongfully convicted. By dedicating its time and resources to a clinical program, they provide the most rigorous representation of its clients possible, while also providing up-and-coming attorneys exposure in this crucial area of legal […]
Center on Wrongful Convictions
The Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC) is a law clinic at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice. The CWC also houses some of the nation’s leading legal experts on false confessions and police interrogations and has helped exonerate more than twenty false […]
Center on Wrongful Convictions – Women’s Project
The Center of Wrongful Convictions (CWC) Women’s Project monitors potential cases of wrongfully convicted women across the country, facilitates the sharing of information about such cases, and educates the public about relevant issues. The project is run at the CWC’s Bluhm Legal Clinic which is internationally recognized for its involvement in legal reform, and for […]
Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth
The Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth (CWCY) is a nonprofit legal clinic that represents children and teenagers who have been convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. It is the only innocence project in the country that focuses exclusively on individuals who were convicted or accused of crimes when they were adolescents or younger. They are […]
Illinois Innocence Project
The Illinois Innocence Project (IIP) is dedicated to freeing innocent men and women imprisoned in Illinois for crimes they did not commit. The Illinois Innocence Project’s three-pronged mission guides their work to bring justice to the wrongfully convicted. The Innocence Project evaluates and investigates cases for credible claims of an Illinois incarcerated person’s innocence, and, when appropriate, […]