The Innocence Project

The Innocence Project was started in 1992 by attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, and their mission is straightforward and simple: to clear the names of the unjustly condemned. To date, 261 men, black and white alike, have been acquitted with the help of the Innocence Project.
It is as necessary to to exonerate the guiltless as it is to prosecute the guilty. In our punitive, unbalanced legal system, innocent people are all too often railroaded, let down by lazy, inept defense attorneys, misidentified, discriminated against (most of the people TIP helps are lower-​income), or are merely victims of human error. The Innocence Project seeks to rectify that, and in doing so is trying to reverse the erosion of our democracy.
Law-​and-​order types who would dismiss The Innocence Project as a bleeding-​heart organization that wants to coddle dangerous felons should consider this; whenever an innocent man is imprisoned for a offense he didn’t commit, it means that a malefactor is still at large.
That alone should serve as enough of a reason to donate to The Innocence Project.