Green River LibGuides: The US Carceral System & Injustice: Wrongful Convictions &amp; Innocence Projects

Wrongful Convictions & Innocence Projects

A little information about the Innocence Project:

The Innocence Project is a national organization founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, two attorneys who had significant experience in civil rights litigation. Through both litigation and public policy, the Innocence Project aims to exonerate innocent individuals who have been wrongfully convicted yet remain incarcerated. An additional goal of the organization is to reform the criminal justice system in ways that will prevent future injustice.

--From "American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends"
(cited & linked below)

The Innocence Project
From the book, American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends contains the quote in the box above
Innocence Project
A search result list of sources from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Measuring Self-Reported Wrongful Convictions Among Prisoners
Innocence Project: DNA Exonerations, 1989-2014; Review of Data and Findings from the First 25 Years
The Innocence Gap
Mother Jones magazine, 2015
Race and Wrongful Convictions in the US
Prison Policy Initiative - National Registry of Exonerations, 2017
Why the innocent end up in prison
Op-Ed by John Grisham, 2018

Related Multimedia

Just Mercy (DVD)
DVD copy available in library
David & Me
David & Me is a gritty, gut-wrenching documentary about two unlikely friends—a convicted murderer and a young filmmaker. David McCallum has served 29 years of a life sentence and may never leave prison again. Despite a mountain of evidence that should exonerate him, or at least trigger a new trial, filmmaker Ray Klonsky and a pro-bono team are stymied by a justice system that has proven reluctant to exonerate the wrongly convicted. When news of a DNA match that fingers a new suspect emerges, the team thinks justice will finally be served. Instead, they realize that their fight has only just begun.