Wrongfully Incarcerated News Today

During this event, people were encouraged to conversate about community issues.

Cyndi Munson, D-Oklahoma City, is working to build support for legislation to increase the compensation for wrongfully incarcerated Oklahomans.

Voting for the Democratic primary was officially capped on Tuesday, June 22, leaving two prominent Black candidates advancing to the November election for City Council in Harlem’s District 9 and Brooklyn’s District 42. 

Yusef Salaam was one of five defendants found guilty in the 1989 Central Park rape case that had the likes of Donald Trump calling for the death penalty. Years after being exonerated for the heinous crime, Salaam will likely become the next councilman for a New York City neighborhood

Connecticut has already paid millions of dollars to people who have been wrongfully incarcerated and later exonerated.

In 1989, Donald Trump took out a full-page ad in the New York Times urging the execution of the Central Park Five, five teens wrongfully accused of raping

At a rally outside the governors residence, the families called for faster reviews of their convictions.

The Sunny Center is one of the only places in the entire country available to people who have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated for the crime. It’s where Robert DuBoise lives.

Central Ave, record-breaking producer Will Packer ( Night School, Girls Trip) responds to how the film and television industry in Georgia may have shifted its voter sentiment. “For me, it’s about who is putting the work in to treat people right – to demand the type of rights that we need for the people that live and work in this state,” said Packer. He adds, “I am fortunate in that I hire a lot of people in this state. It’s important to me that they have the right representatives lo...