This week, join us as we commemorate Juneteenth and celebrate Black Americans’ perseverance and history. What Does Juneteenth Commemorate? On January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all enslaved individuals were now free; however, the news didn’t reach all of the states. It wasn’t until more than two years later, …
We are regularly asked how many innocent people are in prison in the United States. It’s impossible to know the exact rate of wrongful convictions in our country. To make a sound estimate of a rate of wrongful conviction, one must identify all cases of actual innocence (the numerator) among the total population of similar …
Wrongful Conviction Factors A wrongful conviction is the conviction of an innocent person for a crime that they did not commit. It can also be a conviction secured in violation of a person’s constitutional rights. Georgia Innocence Project focuses on wrongful convictions involving the conviction of an innocent person, though many of our cases also …
