The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that is committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. Over the next twenty years, the Innocence Project freed 292 wrongfully convicted people, including 17 who spent time on death row.
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