Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is fighting innocence claims more often, hiring outside counsel to help

New Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is fighting innocence claims more often than her predecessor, Kim Foxx, ...
Essence

The Innocence Project’s First Black Woman Executive Director Talks Transforming The Broken Criminal Legal System

Christina Swarns is a leading capital defense attorney, a nationally recognized criminal legal reform expert and the first Black woman executive director of the Innocence Project — a nonprofit legal ...
National Catholic Register

Our Culture Despises Innocence Because It Fears Its Power

“We settled to go together to the country of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, that we might there be beheaded; and Our Lord, I believe, had given us courage enough, even at so tender an ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego’s powerhouse innocence project closed its doors. Here’s who hopes to fill the void.

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — For years, the California Innocence Project was the trusted place for people convicted of crimes looking for help to prove they didn’t do it. The San Diego team was a powerhouse ...
CNN

Amanda Knox: Keep fighting for your innocence

The first time I attended the Innocence Network Conference in 2014, I had to be coaxed into going. Greg Hampikian, director of the Innocence Project in Idaho, informed me that not only was the ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

In Missouri, innocence isn't enough to get out of prison. The attorney general wants it that way

Freed after more than 43 years in prison, Sandra Hemme’s story illustrates how difficult it is to correct errors when the criminal justice system gets it wrong. In Missouri, the challenge is ...
Decider

‘The Innocence Files’ on Netflix: Your Guide to All 8 Cases

Discover What’s Streaming On: In its latest true crime installment, Netflix isn’t shining an accusatory light on a possible murderer or suspicious criminal. Instead, The Innocence Files targets the ...