English 001 (Flynn) : Criminal Justice Issues: Web Pages

National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the University of Michigan Law School. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence.

The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

The Center receives approximately 200 inquiries a month from inmates around the country seeking our legal representation. Center faculty and staff attorneys, in partnership with outside pro bono attorneys and CWC students, review these requests and represent imprisoned clients with claims of actual innocence. Although the Center focuses primarily on post-conviction cases, occasionally CWC attorneys serve as co-counsel with experienced trial lawyers working pro bono, in the retrials of cases that have been reversed and remanded. CWC attorneys may prepare "friend of the court" briefs in the trial and appellate courts. The Center also has pioneered projects focused on representing wrongfully convicted youth and women — the first projects of their kind in the United States.