Justin Chan
The Innocence Mission is honored to be the recipient of a beneficiant grant from MacKenzie Scott.
“This present is a crucial recognition of thirty years of pioneering work by the Innocence Mission to reveal and stop wrongful convictions,” mentioned Govt Director Christina Swarns.“ It can have an unlimited impression on our means to revive freedom for the harmless and help their therapeutic and reconnection to neighborhood, rework techniques via coverage reform and strategic litigation and advance the innocence motion on this nation. Given the latest announcement of the 3000th identified exoneration in the USA and the uprisings in response to the homicide of George Floyd, this present comes at a vital second within the battle for legal and racial justice reform.”
The funds will likely be used, partly, to supply common litigation coaching to legal professionals all through the Innocence Community and thereby deepen the capability of Community organizations to free and exonerate people who find themselves wrongfully convicted.
