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wrongful conviction
Police Brutality
Police Brutality

San Francisco Man Gets $13M Settlement After Being Falsely Framed for Murder by Police

Angela Helm
3/20/19 8:00PM

‘Evilest White Woman on Earth’: The Criminal Injustice of Terra Morehead

Michael Harriot
6/06/18 10:00AM

The Unofficial Gag Order of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): 16 Years in Prison, Still Not Allowed to Speak

Obaid H. Siddiqui
5/30/18 9:00AM

Stacey Abrams’ Sister Is Engaged to a Man Incarcerated 26 Years for a Rape and Robbery He Didn’t Commit

Michael Harriot
5/25/18 1:39PM

A Missouri Man Has Already Served Almost 2 Decades in Prison for a Murder He Didn’t Commit, but He Still Has Not Been Freed

Breanna Edwards
5/14/18 11:06AM

Innocent Man Awarded $1 Million After Spending 31 Years in Prison for Crime He Didn’t Commit

Terrell Jermaine Starr
3/24/18 11:06AM
The Movement
The Movement

Louisiana Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence After Serving Nearly 38 Years in Prison for Rape He Didn’t Commit

Kirsten West Savali
2/02/18 12:30AM

NYC Man Exonerated After Serving 30 Years for Rape He Didn’t Commit

Anne Branigin
12/21/17 8:52AM

Jury Awards Man $15 Million for Spending 20 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit

Michael Harriot
11/23/17 12:00PM

Black Man in Louisiana to Be Freed From Prison After Judge Overturned 1974 Conviction, but He Still Has to Pay $2,000 Bail

Monique Judge
11/15/17 5:35PM

Detroit Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 25 Years, Claims in New Lawsuit That Police Deliberately Set Him Up to Take the Fall

Breanna Edwards
8/25/17 12:14PM

Couple Wrongfully Imprisoned for 21 Years for Alleged Satanic Abuse Awarded $3.4 Million

Aimée Lutkin
8/23/17 6:05PM
The Root Reviews
The Root Reviews

Crown Heights Exposes a Very Common American Problem: Wrongful Conviction

Danielle Young
8/18/17 5:20PM

Detroit Man, Convicted Based on a Single Hair, Released After 41 Years in Prison

Breanna Edwards
6/16/17 10:03AM

Prosecutors Drop All Charges Against Detroit Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison in Murder Case

Breanna Edwards
6/02/17 7:38AM

Innocent Philly Man Freed After Spending 24 Years in Prison

Yesha
5/25/17 6:34AM

Fla. Apologizes to ‘Groveland Four,’ Men Wrongly Convicted of Rape in 1949

Yesha
4/19/17 9:51AM

Innocent Man in Los Angeles Freed After Serving 20 Years for Attempted Murder

Monique Judge
3/28/17 8:04PM

Innocent Blacks 7 Times More Likely to Be Convicted of Murder: Study

Breanna Edwards
3/07/17 9:09AM

Wrongfully Convicted Ind. Man Says Pence ‘Abandoned Me’

Breanna Edwards
2/10/17 4:10PM