Thus, the question is not why Texas paid Causey $2.5 million for more than 30 years of wrongful imprisonment. The question is ...

The state of Michigan can claw back money it paid to individuals wrongfully imprisoned if there was another settlement or jury award over the issue.

When Frankie Benitez walked out of an Illinois prison after more than 30 years behind bars, he carried little with him—except the weight of a lifetime stolen. N ...

The Exonerated Five, who were wrongfully convicted of a crime in 1989, have become a testament to resilience, solidarity, and ...

As 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999, he began to concoct a story about why he didn’t have any money. In the throes of addiction and not ...

A wrongful conviction lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Marvin Haynes, a man released from prison in 2023 after spending almost two decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit. After more ...

Bribes of heroin. Threats of arrest. Hours of interrogating a sex worker convulsing from opioid withdrawal. One year after his exoneration for a 1993 murder, George Gould is suing the city, along with ...

A federal jury has ordered the town of New Milford to pay another $5.7 million as part of a settlement to two men who served 30 years in prison for a grisly 1985 murder a variety of courts later said ...

"Imprisoned for 28 years for a crime he didn't commit. Family gets largest award in U.S. history. What happened to Darryl ...

One year after the federal government announced the creation of a dedicated Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission to ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 16 overturned the murder conviction of a Corpus Christi man on the grounds that false evidence had led to his lifetime prison sentence for the 2002 ...