Following the end of our wonderful fall internship, Youth For Innocence would like to announce the start of our online winter internship for high school and college students! During this internship, you will get the chance to immerse yourself in work to overturn wrongful convictions. You'll become familiar with case filing, note-taking, organization, and contacting witnesses. You will gain experience communicating with other interns across the country! This internship will st

By: Sreya Subramanian On August 12, 2004, Wilton Dedge walked out of a Florida courtroom, a free man. But freedom had not come easily or...

By: Khalisa Abdussamad On January 14, 2021, at about 2:14 pm, Johnathan “John John” Mathis, 17, at the time of the shooting,  and Azely...

By: Sohpiya Islam According to the Georgia Innocence Project, studies have estimated that 4-6% of people within U.S. prisons are...

By: Arshi Datta In May 2025, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) announced that Virginia has the lowest recidivism rate in the...

Following the end of our wonderful summer internship, Youth For Innocence would like to announce the start of our online fall internship...

By: Sarah Aljahmi What would you do if you were in jail—even if you hadn't done anything wrong? The majority of teens don't know their...

Author: Ashley Osterhout On December 8th, 1991, Cateresa Matthews was found dead in Dixmoor, Chicago. Ten months later, fifteen-year-old...

Youth for Innocence is excited to launch our second annual ONLINE SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM for high school and college students!  This...

Youth for Innocence is launching its first ONLINE SPRING INTERNSHIP PROGRAM for high school and college students! This internship will...

With the arrival of the new holiday season, Youth for Innocence is excited to announce our ONLINE WINTER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM!

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Our training course was created a little over a year ago, during the early months of the founding of Youth for Innocence. Over the past...

The sheer number of wrongful convictions in the United States come from the many varied reasons these sentences are passed in the first...

After our successful summer internship program, Youth for Innocence has decided to create an ONLINE FALL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM for high...

On July 1, 2024, the United States reached a bittersweet milestone: the 200th exoneration from death row since 1973. This shocking...

Youth for Innocence is excited to offer ONLINE SUMMER INTERNSHIPS for high school and college students! Over the course of 6 weeks,...

Through the current legal system, wrongful convictions are often treated with a blind eye: an inevitable mistake needed for the overall...

Jofama Coleman (right) and Abel Soto (left) at a press conference after their exoneration (Source: ABC7 News) Before 2003, Jofama Coleman...

Why should wrongful convictions matter? Perhaps you don't have any personal relations with the justice system: no convicted relatives, no...