State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations again...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis sits down with representatives from the Innocence Project to discuss International Wrongful Conviction Day and the decades long work they do to exonerate prisoners.

Former Rhode Island police officer Scott Hornoff waited in prison for six years, four months and 18 days before he was exonerated. Convicted of murder in 1996, Hornoff worked for years to prove his in...

The State College man has served more than 40 years in prison for a 1980 murder he’s always said he did not commit.

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Edward Wright spent 41 years in prison for a 1984 murder in Springfield that he did not commit, but the most he could collect from the state is $1 million.

Freeing the innocent and preventing wrongful convictions worldwide.

Their music is a form of therapy, a way to process the unimaginable trauma of being stripped of their lives and liberty.

Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...

The payouts covered 592 cases of alleged misconduct against the NYPD and city prosecutors that were settled, but an NYPD spokesman said 41% of the cases were for lawsuits regarding overturned convi…

Freeing the innocent and preventing wrongful convictions worldwide.

I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds of incarcerated critics.

New DNA testing undermines the coerced confession made by Mr. Boles when he was only 17.

While serving a life sentence for a murder he was eventually exonerated of committing, Calvin Duncan studied law and helped many wrongfully convicted prisoners. His memoir is The Jailhouse Lawyer.