Midwest Innocence Project

Demanding a higher vision of justice.

Within MIP’s 5-state region of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, and Nebraska an estimated 4,000 people are incarcerated for crimes they didn’t commit. At any given time, hundreds of people are on our waiting list. Roughly two dozen are in litigation. Keep scrolling to learn how you can help.

LAMAR JOHNSON
Exonerated: February 14, 2023

Who We Are

Our mission is to educate about, advocate for, and obtain and support the exoneration and release of wrongfully convicted people in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. We are an independent innocence organization that is a part of the national Innocence Network. Our partnerships with law firms, law schools, and student volunteers allow us to provide the very best representation at no cost to innocent people within our region.

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Faces of Innocence 2023

You are the energy that helps shapeshift unjust systems.

Your donations help us attack the problem of wrongful conviction from two ends: helping those impacted, and creating systems in which fewer people are impacted.

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