Wrongful Convictions

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March 15, 2025
Georgia remains one of 11 states without a law to compensate the wrongfully convicted, forcing exonerees to navigate a political…
May 26, 2022
Daniel Taylor served 20 years in prison for a double murder that he did not commit as he was already incarcerated…
May 6, 2022
An Ohio man who was coerced into falsely confessing to murdering a 5-year-old child 20 years ago is now speaking…
Alabama, Juvenile, theGrio.com
March 7, 2022
The Bipartisan effort will streamline the system and speed up the process for paying wrongful conviction claims.
theGRIO.com
January 31, 2022
Willie Stokes, a Philadelphia man recently freed after 37 years in prison for murder, is suing the city for 'outrageous…
Yusef Salaam mocks Donald Trump
September 7, 2021
Yusef Salaam wants a seat in the Harlem senate to focus his efforts on police brutality, criminal justice reform, and…
Fairfax County Cop Car
April 18, 2021
Jonathan Freitag, 25, is accused of making up reasons to pull people over and planting drugs in their vehicles in…
Darryl Fulton thegrio.com
July 22, 2018
A Chase Bank branch on Chicago’s South Side refused to deposit a settlement check from a man who had been…
April 25, 2016
While hundreds of students got to walk across the stage during the graduation ceremony from Goshen College, the moment was
April 16, 2016
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As four men sat in prison for a murder they didn’t commit, records show that state
April 16, 2016
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As four men sat in prison for a murder they didn’t commit, records show that state
June 8, 2015
Kalief Browder, 21, hung himself with an air conditioning cord on Saturday after he lost his battle with depression that
April 21, 2014
OPINION - In many ways, he helped open the eyes of many to the injustices of a system that far…
May 13, 2013
NBC Southern California - Brians Banks joined the “Innocence March” in Malibu Saturday as part of a 660-mile walk to…