Midwest Innocence Project

Join us for the 2021 Faces of Innocence Gala July 22! We are ecstatic to announce the Keynote Speaker Panel featuring former MIP clients Faye Jacobs, Floyd Bledsoe, and Ricky Kidd. Register and submit your question for the panel Q&A today! https://www.facebook.com/events/308835560722203/?ref=newsfeed

For decades, Detective Roger Golubski abused and terrorized Black women in Wyandotte County, Kansas. There has yet to be any accountability.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Director of I Am Resilience & former MIP client, Ricky Kidd, wants you to give yourself a break. What do you do to help with everyday stress & anxiety? Check Out NAMI For More Tips! https://nami.org/Home... Midwest Innocence Project #iAmResilience #MentalHealth #Care #Listen #Learn #NAMI #Health #Mentalhealthmonth #MentalAwareness

MIP's NextGen board is hosting a virtual Happy Hour, Jan. 27th, 6-7pm and we would like to take this opportunity to invite other young professionals to learn more about the ways they can get involved. If you or someone you know is interested in joining the NextGen board please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSfq4VsT0B6KZjRr6/viewform

Our friends at Decarcerate are working to end solitary confinement in Arkansas. Arkansas continues to have the highest solitary confinement rate in the US and the numbers are disproportionate for Black people and Hispanic women. Read more about the use of solitary confinement in AR and what is being done to stop it. https://f01434ce-df57-4298-a5fe-94fe0b3b05dc.usrfiles.com/

Welcome home, Ms. Parks! Congratulations to you and your team at the California Innocence Project !

Exoneree and former client, John Brown passed away last week. Please consider donating to John’s Memorial Fund as his family makes arrangements. We are holding John and his family in our hearts, as he always held us in his. Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/john-brown-memorial-fund-mip Read more about John Brown here: https://www.themip-act.org/john-brown

Detective Roger Golubski raped and terrorized Black women in Wyandotte County, Kansas for decades. He is responsible for the wrongful conviction of Lamonte Mcintyre and who knows how many others. What is he doing now? He is currently free & drawing his pension.

Today is your last day to vote in the 2020 #WreathsOfHope contest Vote using the link below and share this post to help us spread the word. https://xd.wayin.com//965ce914-b956-47ba-984a-2c34ed/entry

Because of your support, Mr. Coones and his family are reunited. You can help correct other injustices and support our work to free other wrongfully convicted individuals by making a donation here: https://themip.org/donate/

It is with great heartbreak that we share that exoneree and former client John Brown passed away yesterday due to natural causes. Please consider donating to John’s GoFundMe as his family makes arrangements. We are all holding John and his family in our hearts, as he always held us in his. Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/john-brown-memorial-fund-mip Read more about John Brown here: https://www.themip-act.org/john-brown

Olin "Pete" Coones was exonerated today after spending more than 12 years in prison for a crime he did not commit! Join Morgan Pilate LLC and MIP in welcoming home Mr. Coones!

This week, we've been presenting evidence of MIP client Olin "Pete" Coones' innocence at an evidentiary hearing in Kansas City, Kansas.

Charles Weiss and Jonathan Potts of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP do great work freeing innocent people in Missouri. Watch their interview below to learn more !

Donald Doc Nash was freed from the state prison in Bonne Terre on July 3. He had just turned 78, after having spent 12 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. His story also highlights the detrimental impact of junk science". Learn more about his case here:

I finally got taken back to St. Louis, and freedom is just right there, Johnson said in a phone call with The Independent from Jefferson City Correctional Center. And it was snatched away from me for something procedural that shouldn’t be more important than someone being wrongfully convicted.