Why We Battle Injustice
We believe that we can create a society that does not sacrifice innocence because of a legal system that relies on fostering prejudice, maintaining economic and social inequality, and creating poorly conceived legislation to govern its people.
Someone can only understand the true meaning of justice by experiencing injustice. Imagine what would happen to your life if you were arrested and convicted for a crime you didn’t commit. How would your world change?
Justice is not blind, as they say – it is only blind to the injustice inherent in our legal system.
How We Battle Injustice
Changing the Laws
The injustice in our legal system begins in our legislative system. Legislators often create new laws without understanding the real-world impact. Life After Justice’s goal is to focus solely on non-DNA evidence cases of wrongly convicted individuals, enabling us to create new laws or set new precedents that can help undo an unjust law and the ill-conceived legislation that created it.
Economic Advocacy
Working with The Innocence Project, we’re addressing the financial redress of wrongfully convicted individuals – exonerees. There are no guiding standards across the 50 states and the federal government for compensating exonerees for the time and life lost to unjust incarceration. Some states automatically award compensation; in others, exonerees must fight for what they are rightfully due. Through our advocacy work, we can change how states and the federal government manage exonerees’ compensation.
Mental Health & Technology: Empowering Exonerees
Prison is like a car crash – no one escapes uninjured. The Equal Justice Initiative notes that our legal system has incarcerated millions of Americans, including children and wrongly convicted individuals, in overcrowded, violent, and inhumane jails and prisons. There is no treatment, education, or rehabilitation. Now, imagine that you don’t even belong there in the first place.
Wrongly convicted men and women serve an average of 8-10 years incarcerated. The world moves on – the pace of change does not stop. Whatever they knew before they went in is obsolete. Whoever they were before is gone forever. Acceptance of these facts and overcoming the many horrors one may face while wrongfully incarcerated requires support.
Our specially trained mental health network provides the bridge for exonerees to discover how to adjust to their newly won freedom. The Power-Up Pack provides basic technology and access to training so that they are not left behind as the world keeps moving. These two services empower exonerees to take charge and reclaim their life.
Breaking Down Injustice
Individual Donors
Do you know an innocent person who was wrongly convicted or want to know more about this aspect of our legal system? Get involved. Support our work to free and empower exonerees. You can help in multiple ways.
Learn MoreInstitutional Donors
You have the power to help us change the legal system and empower exonerees. Support our efforts to free wrongly convicted individuals and correct injustice masquerading as justice. There are many ways in which you can help.
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