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2025 April Dispatch

In the Driver’s Seat: How Faye Jacobs has used her 7 years of freedom to build her own successful transportation business  Laquanda “Faye” Jacobs first got the idea to start her own business in an unexpected place: stuck at the airport, waiting for a ride.  It was 2019, only a year after Faye was released […]

2025 March Dispatch

What Gets Us Through: Celebrating resilience and connection with Matthew Jacober   “For me, there’s nothing more motivating than trying to right a wrong. And I don’t know that there’s a greater wrong than someone sitting in prison who does not belong there.” That’s Matthew Jacober, partner at Lathrop GPM and newly elected president of […]

2025 February Dispatch

Things Don’t Always Add Up: Why MIP’s Newest Senior Staff Attorney  joined the fight for justice    “In any post-conviction work, we’re pushing a big rock up a steep hill.    Sometimes, it rolls back a bit, and those moments are devastating. There’s grief. There’s mourning. But when we keep going, when we get to […]

2024 December Dispatch

How one Kansas City family is helping free the innocent and build a more just legal system in the Midwest.   In 2019, after spending over 23 years in prison, Ricky Kidd’s conviction was overturned, and he was released.    Ricky’s release marked a monumental victory for the wrongly convicted. It was also a turning […]

2024 October Dispatch

When Innocence Isn’t Enough – The Rodney Lincoln Story   When I ask Rodney Lincoln what he hopes people learn from his story, he answers in just three words:   Learn to appreciate.   It’s not the answer we might expect from someone with a story like Rodney’s. After spending 36 years of his life […]