The After Innocence Campaign is a national community engagement initiative addressing the difficulties of reentering society for individuals who were wrongfully imprisoned but eventually exonerated. Working Films is directing the outreach campaign through and beyond the film's broadcast on Showtime in October 2006, and the DVD release in February 2007. The After Innocence campaign will explore the challenges faced by the exonerated, such as the hardship of finding employment and the stinging absence of state compensation for their wrongful convictions.  Working Films will enrich the broadcast with screenings across the country in churches, schools and other community venues, and offer viewers meaningful tools to become involved in efforts to redress the difficulties  the exonerated face  when transitioning from prison.

THE LIFE AFTER EXONERATION PROGRAM (LAEP)
In 2003 human rights activist Dr. Lola Vollen co-founded the Life After Exoneration Program (LAEP) with Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. This nationwide Program was created to address the on-going injustices facing the exonerated and to provide services and resources to help the survivors of wrongful conviction re-enter society and rebuild their lives.

The exonerated face challenges in virtually every aspect of life – employment, housing, financial resources, support systems, and access to medical, psychological and dental care. A convicted person upon release is provided social services that do not exist formally for the exonerated. LAEP, a non-profit project, was created to address this lack of services.

For more information or to make a donation, contact:
www.exonerated.org

THE INNOCENCE PROJECT
In 1992 attorneys Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld founded The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic, works to free innocent people, estimated in the thousands, who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the criminal justice system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. This Project handles only cases where post-conviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. As a clinic, students handle individual cases and are supervised by a team of pro-bono attorneys and clinic staff.

DNA testing has been a major factor in changing the criminal justice system. A result of Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld’s work is The Innocence Network, a nationwide group of law schools, journalism schools, and public defender offices that assists inmates trying to prove their innocence whether or not the cases involve biological evidence subject to DNA testing. The Innocence Network also consults with legislators and law enforcement officials on the state, local, and federal level, conducts research and training, produces scholarship, and proposes a wide range of remedies to prevent wrongful convictions.

For more information or to make a donation, contact:
http://innocenceproject.org

JENNIFER THOMPSON-CANINO ACTIVIST AGAINST EYEWITNESS MISTAKEN IDENTIFICATION
Read Jennifer's story on mistaken identity.