With the help of the California Innocence Project, Horace Roberts now walks free after spending 20 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Horace Roberts was declared factually innocent on October 15, 2018, ...
Eighteen people whose criminal convictions were linked to corrupt Chicago cop Sgt. Ronald Watts will have their charges dismissed on Monday. The wrongful convictions will be thrown out by Judge Leroy Martin Jr. of the ...
Hundreds of inmates in various U.S. prisons have gone on strike, protesting what they’ve labeled “modern-day slavery.” Solidarity and Support In what may pass as the largest strike in recent history, the 2018 U.S. prison ...
A Detroit man, Darrell Siggers, was released from prison after 34 years of a wrongful conviction. 54-year-old Siggers was incarcerated at the Wayne County Jail for a 1984 murder he always maintained he never committed. ...
Fifteen men each filed separate federal lawsuits last Friday alleging they were wrongfully convicted and framed for various criminal offenses by former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and the Chicago PD. The corruption scandal surrounding ...
Laquanda “Faye” Jacobs was released from prison last Tuesday after 26 years of wrongful incarceration in Arkansas. Jacobs was sentenced to life without parole at the age of 16 for capital murder, but the Innocence ...
A 41-year-old man who was sentenced at the age of 17 for the 1993 shooting of his friend has been released from prison after 24 years of a wrongful conviction. Shane Williams was discharged and ...
A 59-year-old man who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he did not commit was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Gerald Manning was 17 when he was sentenced for the rape ...