Why I Contribute to the Innocence Project

One of the cruelest aspects of our criminal justice system is the strategy of the police and court system to force the accused to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit. Before this happened to someone I knew, I would never have believed that anyone would ever admit to a crime he/she did not commit. But it happened. And when I investigated, I discovered that it happens every day. Literally every day. There is so much evil in the world, one would be hard put to identify which form of it is the worst. But accusing, prosecuting, and then imprisoning innocent people of crimes you know they didn’t commit is high up on my list.

Too few people care about this. But for those that do, rectifying the injustice is worth celebrating. Click here and here for two success stories.