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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 31/07/2026

Happy Freedom Day, Eddie! 1 year ago, Edward Wright walked out of prison after 41 years of wrongful incarceration. Come see Eddie live on stage at Voices of the Innocent, Sep. 17, & help support others like him who are still fighting for their freedom. www.newenglandinnocence.org/voicesoftheinnocent

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 15/05/2026

MA RESIDENTS: EXONEREES NEED YOUR HELP THIS WEEK! Right now, we have a real chance to support families impacted by wrongful conviction. Please call/email your MA senator & ask them to co-sponsor/support Senate budget amendments 891 & 892. Learn more at www.newenglandinnocence.org/innocence-bl...

Urgent call to Action!: Contact your Massachusetts State Senator today to co-sponsor amendments 891 and 892 to support exonerees! Ask your MA state senator to co-sponsor Senate budget amendments 891 (to increase funding to the Exoneree Network to support families impacted by wrongful conviction and long-term incarceration) and 892 (to overhaul the compensation system for exonerees). We need your help to ensure that people impacted by wrongful convictions receive what they deserve!

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 15/04/2026

Please help us find a new Development Director to join our team! Do you know anyone committed to community-centric fundraising & building resources to fight injustice in the criminal legal system? Share this & tell folks to check out the posting and apply by May 8: newenglandinnocence.org/careers

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 14/04/2026

Join members of our community for the premiere screening of “The Dreaming Game,” a short documentary featuring exoneree Raymond Gaines, at @iffboston.bsky.social on 4/25 at 8:45 PM and 4/26 at 12 PM at @somervilletheatre.bsky.social. Purchase tickets: iffboston.org/events/thedr.... #IFFBoston2026

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 30/03/2026

Our work is about resisting injustice and celebrating the joy of freedom. This year, we honor both at our annual storytelling event, Voices of the Innocent: Resistance & Joy, on September 17, at City Winery Boston. Sponsor this life-changing work here: www.newenglandinnocence.org/voicesofthei...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 18/03/2026

More than 40 years after his wrongful arrest & after spending 34 years in prison for a Boston murder he did not commit, THOMAS ROSA is FINALLY EXONERATED. We are overjoyed that this nightmare is over. Mr. Rosa will be the 100th person officially exonerated in Massachusetts since 1989.

A photo of Thomas Rosa with the case update that, more than 40 years after his arrest and 34 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Thomas Rosa is finally exonerated!

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 02/12/2025

The Exoneree Network is expanding our healing work after a powerful year of freedom, but we need your help. This #GivingTuesday, your donation ensures our community members don’t have to heal and rebuild alone. And now through 12/31, every gift is doubled. Give today: secure.qgiv.com/for/newengla...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 02/10/2025

It's #WrongfulConvictionDay and we are so grateful to @mayorwu.boston.gov for recognizing that "wrongful convictions are an injustice that robs an innocent person of their life, liberty, & dignity and has an immeasurable personal, familial, emotional, & societal cost." #mapoli #bospoli

Whereas: International Wrongful Conviction Day was established on October 2, 2013, by the Innocence Network to raise awareness of the causes and harms of wrongful convictions, & to recognize organizations like the New England Innocence Project, Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) Innocence Program, & Boston College Innocence Program, as well as programs like the Exoneree Network, which collectively work to free innocent people from prison & support families impacted by incarceration; AND
Whereas: According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there have been 3,724 known exonerations since 1989 nationwide, including 93 known exonerations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts & in Boston, there are 41 known exonerees, representing innocent individuals who lost a combined total of 674 years of liberty to wrongful incarceration, and there are an unknown number of wrongfully convicted people who have not yet been exonerated, some of whom still remain in prison; AND
Whereas: In Boston, Black, Indigenous, & People of Color making up 78% of exonerees who were wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit, with systemic racism, coerced pleas, eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, inadequate legal defense, official misconduct, misapplication of forensic science, & unreliable and unrelated informant testimony being some of the major factors that contribute to wrongful convictions; AND
Whereas: Wrongful convictions are an injustice that robs an innocent person of their life, liberty, & dignity and has an immeasurable personal, familial, emotional, & societal cost. An Act Preventing False Confessions (H.1847 / S. 1136) is one initiative, introduced and pending in the state legislature, that aims to prevent wrongful convictions from happening in the first place; NOW
Therefore: I, Michelle Wu, Mayor of the City of Boston, do hereby declare October 2nd, 2025, to be:
Wrongful Conviction Day in the City of Boston

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 01/10/2025

*TODAY (Oct. 1) at 12:30 Eastern!* Join us in person (or virtually) for our press conference at the Massachusetts State House, "Misconduct, Lies, & Systemic Injustice: Lessons from the Exoneration of Edward G. Wright," in honor of #WrongfulConvictionDay! [livestream: www.facebook.com/newenglandin...

A photo of Stephanie Hartung, Senior Staff Attorney at the New England Innocence Project, holding a poster of Edward Wright in front of the Massachusetts State House

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 10/09/2025

*TONIGHT! Join the Facebook livestream of Voices of the Innocent!* If you're not able to join us in person at City Winery Boston tonight, please tune in to the livestream at 6:55 p.m. EST on our Facebook page. No Facebook account is needed to join. www.facebook.com/newenglandin...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 17/05/2025

Imagine being wrongfully convicted & spending decades in prison. If not for the Exoneree Network, many facing this reality would be on their own. If you live in MA, take a few minutes TODAY to sustain funding for this community. A script to email your state senator here: tinyurl.com/crvf32md

The Exoneree Network: Empowering Wrongfully Convicted People in Freedom. The Exoneree Network empowers individuals and families who have suffered the trauma of long-term incarceration to heal and rebuild.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 16/05/2025

If you live in MA, we need your help! Please contact your state senator (malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...) and ask them to support Senator Jehlen's Budget Amendment #851 to increase funding to the Exoneree Network (EN). EN empowers wrongfully convicted people in freedom. Please reach out today!

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 11/04/2025

SB141 passed in the NH Senate and now we need help to pass it in NH House! Go to bit.ly/signSB141 Date: April 16 Committee: House Judiciary Choose the Bill: 10:00 a.m. - SB141 I am: A Member of the Public Position: I Support this Bill Submit Name and Town Final Review and Submit!

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 01/04/2025

With our clients and our community under threat, we need a steady & reliable source of funding to continue our fight. Will you become a 𝙎𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧 to help us plan for the future & pursue every resource possible to fight wrongful convictions? secure.qgiv.com/for/sustaine...

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 19/03/2025

We want to hear from you! Connecting to our community is vital to achieving our mission. Help us learn more about you & what you care about most by taking our 5-min. survey: forms.gle/WZraShMLREAJ.... Your thoughts and input will inform our strategic planning and help shape the future of our work.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 08/02/2025

Our commitment to racial justice does not begin or end during Black History Month. We will always fight to make freedom possible and support individuals and families impacted by incarceration. Now, more than ever, we must be clear about who we are and what we are fighting for.

Large “7.5x” with a large brown circle and a much smaller white circle. Text on blue background: “Innocent Black people are 7.5 times more likely than innocent white people to be wrongfully convicted of murder.” Logos for the National Registry of Exonerations and the New England Innocence Project with image of a fist holding up the scales of justice.

Large “8x.” Text on Blue background: “Innocent Black people are nearly 8 times more likely than innocent white people to be wrongfully convicted of rape.” Logos of the National Registry of Exonerations and the New England Innocence Project with an image of a fist holding up the scales of justice.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 07/02/2025

Now, more than ever, we need to make clear who we are and what we are fighting for.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 31/01/2025

If you live in NH, here's a guide on how to support Bill SB141: Go to this link gc.nh.gov/remotecommit... Date: February 4 Committee: Senate Judiciary Choose the Bill: 1:30 p.m. - SB141 I am: A Member of the Public Position: I Support this Bill Submit Name and Town Final Review and Submit!

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 16/11/2024

We will not stop fighting for people & communities. We will keep working to bring people home. And for those who are finally free, we will celebrate with them because joy itself is an act of resistance by those who are victims of the criminal legal system.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 16/11/2024

Through each overturned conviction, our work proves that the criminal legal system is built on a collection of lies. We are an independent organization focused on freedom, supporting abolition of the system that has harmed our clients, our families, and our communities.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 16/11/2024

Our mission to free innocent people is not a statement about who is more deserving of freedom. It is a direct attack on the legitimacy of the criminal legal system, which justifies itself by equating a finding of guilt with danger. We embrace the people our system told us to fear.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 16/11/2024

What does it mean to be wrongfully convicted? It can mean many things, from the narrowest definition - an innocent person being convicted of a crime they did not commit - to the broadest - being convicted by an illegitimate, racist, arbitrary system that harms, not heals.

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New England Innocence Project @newenglandinnocence.org · 16/11/2024

We've finally migrated here from the BAD place, and so it's our chance to reintroduce ourselves: We are a diverse, passionate team who cares about FREEDOM. We know prisons do not create public safety. We follow the data, and we want resources in communities, not in the criminal legal system.

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