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are in prison or worse—executed. Therefore, prosecutors, police, witnesses, judges, juries, victims and the media join in a great festival of public denial insisting-that wrongful convictions are rare and never ...
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
. But sometimes they guess wrong and a prisoner will lose his or her life as a result. Such was the case with Robert Foster, 57, who died in a Gregg County Jail cell in August 2009. Foster was obese and had ...
Wrongful Convictions Prove Costly, Especially for the Wrongly Convicted by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 6, 2011, the Better Government Association (BGA) and the Center on Wrongful ...
Article • January 9, 2015
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment
$1 Million Settlement for New Jersey Man Exonerated after 18 Years Wrongful Imprisonment by $1 Million Settlement for New Jersey Man Exonerated after 18 Years Wrongful Imprisonment A New ...
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
statute. Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, which has championed DNA testing as a forensic tool, hailed the Oklahoma law as a victory. “Two decades ago, when we founded the Innocence ...
Article • January 15, 2015
Houston Settles Wrongful Conviction Suit for $3 Million by Houston Settles Wrongful Conviction Suit for $3 Million by Matt Clarke On November 2, 2012, the City of Houston, Texas agreed ...
Publication • July 29, 2016
on” to the wrong suspect and inadvertently leading to his continued prosecution and conviction (2006: 292).  Perjured Informant Testimony: Frequently referred to as “snitch testimony,” the Innocence Project ...
Crowdfunding Projects Present Opportunities for Prisoners by Derek Gilna Kickstarter and other crowdfunding websites provide an interesting option for prisoners with imagination ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
time in U.S. history a wrongfully convicted person had spent behind bars before being exonerated, said the Ohio Innocence Project, which provided legal services to Jackson. Jackson initially received ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
to register as a sex offender. The state of California has laws in place to govern claims for compensation for those subjected to wrongful convictions. Payne doesn’t qualify, though, because his lawyers ...
Publication • January 13, 2017
on the Street and in the Cell Block The South Florida-based Human Rights Defense Center in collaboration with the National Police Accountability Project are offering a two-day CLE seminar at the Marriott Hotel ...
Brief • July 28, 2016
OF SAN DIEGO AND IMPERIAL COUNTY AND NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE HARRISON ORR No. 16-15109 INTERESTS OF AMICI The ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU ...
or a substance containing fentanyl to mandatory life without parole or death penalty sentences. Such an approach would be a dramatic step in the wrong direction at a time when there is a bipartisan movement aimed ...
Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
accept the deal and lost at trial – despite a lack of DNA evidence in the case. Banks took the plea bargain but never gave up his claim of innocence and continued to fight his wrongful conviction. He ...
Article • May 24, 2021
that push. The Innocence Project learned that another man who took courses from the same training school as Collins was under indictment for rape and murder and that he may be a serial offender. The current ...
Publication • August 9, 2016
TESTING & WRONGFUL CONVICTION URBAN INSTITUTE Acknowledgements The Post-Conviction DNA and Wrongful Conviction Project was funded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S ...
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
Los Angeles County Pays $110,000 for Wrongful Jail Death by Los Angeles County settled a lawsuit for the wrongful death of Julius Gray in the North County Correctional Facility on November ...
In-the-News Article • August 31, 2015
Editorial re proposed BOP prison in Kentucky Aug. 31, 2015 Letters to Editor or Editorials Lexington Herald-Leader Federal prison in Letcher County wrong for region, environment, prisoners ...
Article • August 8, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Michigan Prisoners Receive Compensation for Wrongful Convictions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Edward George Carter and Marwin McHenry, both wrongfully convicted and imprisoned in separate ...
Publication • July 29, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Prison Reform
for the Administration and Congress The Smart on Crime Coalition The efforts of the Smart on Crime Coalition*1are coordinated by the Constitution Project. The Constitution Project (TCP) brings together unlikely allies ...
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