The Innocence Project: The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic which works to free innocent people who have been wrongly convicted and incarcerated, and to bring substantive reform to the criminal justice system responsible for their unjust imprisonment
After Innocence is a documentary that follows seven men on their journey back into society after exoneration. The film won a Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2005
Burden of Innocence: A PBS Frontline documentary about the experiences of the wrongly convicted after exoneration.
The Center on Wrongful Convictions is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice.
The Justice Project (TJP) is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to fighting injustice and to creating a more humane and just world.
The Constitution Project is a bipartisan nonprofit organization that seeks consensus on controversial legal and constitutional issues through a unique combination of scholarship and activism.
Death Penalty Information Center provides state-by-state information on executions, history of the death penalty, discusses mental retardation, race, innocence, deterrence, and botched execution.
Death Penalty Focus is dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information.
Equal Justice USA, a project of the Quixote Center, is a grassroots campaign for human rights in the U.S. legal system. Through education and mobilization, it seeks to bring into clear focus the racial, economic and political biases active in U.S.
Truth in Justice Project is a nonprofit organization working to free wholly innocent men and women convicted of crimes they did not commit.
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The Center is non-partisan and non-advocacy. They are committed to transparent and comprehensive reporting both in the United States and around the world. This site contains a section on prosecutorial misconduct.
Forejustice contains links to innocence databases and efforts to address the injustice of wrongful conviction world-wide. It is in the spirit of the heroes of The White Rose and The Rosenstrasse Protest in World War II Germany, that the word forejustice was created to express action that moves towards an increase in the justice prevalent in a society.
The Re-entry Policy Council was established in 2001 by the Council of State Governments to assist state government officials grappling with the increasing number of people leaving prisons and jails to return to the communities they left behind.
Justice: Denied magazine publicizes cases of wrongful conviction, and exposes how and why they occur. Justice: Denied is produced by a team of volunteer writers, editors and other staff persons located throughout the United States.
Centurion Ministries has the primary mission to vindicate and free from prison those who are completely innocent of the crimes for which they have been unjustly convicted and imprisoned for life or death.
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (2005) Eggers and Vollen, eds.
Johnson, Calvin (2005) Exit to Freedom (Calvin Johnson)
Protess, David and Warden, Rob (1998) A Promise of Justice. (The Ford Heights Four)
Adams, Randall (1991) Adams V. Texas (Case depicted in The Thin Blue Line)
Shapiro, Fred (1969) Whitmore (George Whitmore)
Haresign, Gordon (1986) Innocence (Steve Linscott)
Giavanni, Marcus (1998) Nelson VS The United States of America (Mark Nelson)
Junkin, Tim (2004) Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA (Kirk Bloodsworth)
Scheck, Barry, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer (2000) Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches from the Wrongfully Convicted
Cook, Kerry Max (2007) Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit (About exoneree Kerry Max Cook)
Huff, C. Ronald., Arye Rattner and Edward Sagarin (1996) Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy (Miscellaneous cases and causes of wrongful conviction).
>Scheck, B, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer (2003) Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
Westervelt, Saundra. D. and John. A. Humphrey, eds. (2001) Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on Failed Justice
Bernhard, Adele, When Justice Fails: Indemnification for Unjust Conviction , 6 U. Chi. L Sch. Roundtable 73 (1999) and Justice Still Fails: A Review of Recent Efforts to Compensate Individuals Who Have Been Wrongly Convicted , Drake L. Rev. (2004).
Lopez, Alberto B., $10 and a Denim Jacket? A Model Statute for Compensating the Wrongly Convicted , 36 Ga. L. Rev. 665 (2002). Armbrust, Shawn, When Money Isn't Enough: The Case For Holistic Compensation of the Wrongfully Convicted , Am. Crim. L Rev. 157 (2004).
Master, Howard S., Revisiting the Takings-Based Argument for Compensating the Wrongfully Convicted , 60 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 97 (2004).
Gross, Samuel, Exonerations in the United States 1989 Through 2003 , 95 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 2, 2005.
Borchard, E. M., European Systems of State Indemnity for Errors of Criminal Justice. Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology 3 (1913)
Campbell, K., & Denov, M., The Burden of Innocence: Coping with a Wrongful Imprisonment. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 46(2) (2004).
Miller, Neil. (2001). Reflections of the Wrongly Convicted . New England Law Review, 35(3)
Zahlman, Marvin (2006). Criminal Justice System Reform and Wrongful Conviction. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 17(4).
Zaremski, C.L. (2005). Comment: The compensation of erroneously convicted individuals in Pennsylvania. Duquesne University Law Review,43.
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