Since 1989, over 2,700 individuals have been exonerated in the United States after cumulatively spending nearly 24,770 years in prison as victims of wrongful convictions. The science on wrongful convictions is scattered across fields: psychology, communication, legal studies, criminal justice, among others. The Truth Project seeks to become a central place for researchers and practitioners of all fields to develop collaborations and augment the empirical study of wrongful convictions.
If you have case files or data to contribute to our research on wrongful convictions, please send us a message and we’ll get in touch with you to securely transfer files to our research team. Please message us if you’re interested in getting involved in other ways, as well.
The Innocence Project and the Equal Justice Initiative are pioneering organizations that try to exonerate those who have been wrongfully convicted. Our aim is different, but complementary. We want to use court and testimony data to study social, psychological, and legal dynamics of how innocent people are incarcerated to mitigate future wrongful convictions.
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