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Reader letters published in our March 2022 issue.

Americans want to be able to trust the institutions of the country that help shape it and build it, but ironically many of those "agencies" and "organizations" only build [...]

Last January, Illinois legislators changed the states felony murder statute as part of the landmark criminal justice reform bill known as the SAFE-T Act. But it didnt apply the reform retroactively.

In the second part of this two-part series on criminal justice reform, Worth sits down with two people who were wrongfully convicted and incarcerated to discover how they were ultimately brought to justice.

Kevin Duggar spent twenty years behind bars for a crime his identical twin brother, Karl Smith, committed.

In the first part of this two-part series on criminal justice reform, Worth sits down with Lava Media cofounders Jason Flom and Jeff Kempler to discuss how they became involved with the Innocence Project and the impact of wrongful convictions.

Names of prosecutors and defense lawyers involved in convictions later deemed to have been wrongful would be forwarded to ethics commission under proposed bill.

WVTM 13 reporter Brea Douglas talks with lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, about his fight for the rights of prisoners on death row and those wrongfully convicted.

WVTM 13 reporter Brea Douglas talks with lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, about his fight for the rights of prisoners on death row and those wrongfully convicted.

WVTM 13 reporter Brea Douglas talks with lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, about his fight for the rights of prisoners on death row and those wrongfully convicted.