Name: Innocence Project New Orleans
Address: 4051 Ulloa St, New Orleans, LA, 70119-6833, USA
Telephone: (504) 943-1902

Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) has grown to be the second largest free-standing (not a law school clinic) innocence project in the country.

IPNO is a nonprofit law office with full time staff attorneys working cases from start to finish, supported by investigators, paralegals and a constellation of volunteer assistance - primarily outside attorneys working pro bono as co-counsel and law students who assist with case review and investigation - at no cost to our clients.

IPNO has a national reputation for winning exonerations; both in cases where DNA can prove innocence, and in more difficult cases where DNA does not exist or has been destroyed. The latter type of cases require hundreds of hours of traditional investigation to gather the evidence needed to exonerate an innocent prisoner.

During its first decade, IPNO won the freedom or exoneration of 22 wrongfully convicted prisoners who served a total of nearly 440 years in Louisiana and Mississippi's prisons between them (These numbers continue to grow - check out our list of exonerees for the most recent information).

We also provide intensive support and guidance to each of our clients upon their release both directly and through our support of, and involvement in, Resurrection After Exoneration.

We simultaneously use our client's cases to ask for changes in laws and policies that cause indigent prisoners to be wrongly convicted. IPNO believes in preventing wrongful convictions by increasing openness and accountability in the criminal justice system. This approach makes the system fairer for everyone who encounters it. And, in the states with the nation's highest rates of incarceration, an exceptionally high proportion of the people are impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Mission:

In the two states with the highest incarceration rates in the world, Innocence Project New Orleans frees innocent prisoners, exposes injustice and prevents wrongful convictions.

Purpose:

Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) is a nonprofit law office that represents innocent prisoners serving life sentences in Louisiana and Mississippi, and assists them with their transition into the free world upon their release. IPNO uses its cases to explain how wrongful convictions happen and what we can all do to prevent them. IPNO works with legislators, judges, lawyers, law enforcement and policymakers to protect the innocent within the criminal justice system.

Since its inception in 2001, IPNO has freed 21 wrongfully convicted prisoners and cleared the name of one other man who died in prison, eight years before DNA exonerated him. IPNO takes the hardest cases--cases that others are not equipped to. We devote the majority of our time and resources to freeing poor people who will otherwise die in prison for crimes they did not commit.

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