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Byline: Gina Barton, USA TODAY Federal officials who pledged millions of dollars to test backlogged rape kits promised sexual predators would be brought to justice - and wrongfully convicted prisoners [...]

Donald J. Trump's remarks during the presidential debate are part of a ''continuing pattern'' of false statements designed to ''make the men suffer,'' the lawsuit charged. Five Black and Latino [...]

Byline: Amanda Lee Myers and Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY What happens to a man on death row when the lead detective in his case says he got it wrong, that [...]

Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent years in Sing Sing for a shooting he did not commit. Along the way, he helped others seek their freedom and became the face of a movement. [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- Amid celebrations of a historic prisoner exchange between the United States, Russia and other countries this month, some families of Western detainees in [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff For the second week in a row, Christopher Dunn wore real underwear, the kind with an elastic band he hadn't been able to enjoy during his three [...]

An Australian jury found that Kathleen Folbigg had smothered her children. But scientists now say that they probably died from natural causes. Two decades ago, Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella A California man was freed Thursday after recently uncovered evidence showed that he was not at the scene of a 1989 shooting that led to his conviction [...]

Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongly imprisoned Central Park Five, is running in a competitive City Council race in Harlem. He described the former president's indictment as ''karma.'' Not long [...]

An entrance to Central Park will be named the Gate of the Exonerated, for the teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of a crime that triggered a national conversation on racial [...]

Mr. Syed, whose case was featured in the hit podcast ''Serial,'' had been convicted in the death of a high school classmate and spent 23 years in prison before being [...]

Byline: Francine Kiefer Staff writer Abstract: Joaquin Ciria spent 32 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. On the day he was set free, it was almost [...]

Byline: Robert Bell Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, USA TODAY NETWORK Anthony Miller is free from prison. 'It used to be normal for me to be out here,' said Miller in [...]

Should wrongfully convicted people falsely admit guilt to win parole? Jeffrey Clark and Garr Keith Hardin were the victims of an unjust murder prosecution near Louisville, Ky., during the mid-1990s. [...]

Byline: Karen Heller SYRACUSE, N.Y. - 'I kept fighting for the court to do the right thing,' Anthony Broadwater says, sitting in his lawyer's office Wednesday, a box of tissues [...]

Byline: Jaclyn Peiser For eight days, author Alice Sebold remained quiet about the exoneration last week of the man convicted of raping her in 1981. Sebold's 1999 memoir 'Lucky,' which [...]

Byline: Wendy Rhodes, Palm Beach Post, USA TODAY NETWORK MIAMI - Spend a little time with Neo-pop artist Peter Tunney, and you are likely to hear an impassioned elucidation on [...]

Scholars have never accepted the official explanation for the murder. That is unlikely to change. Even before a judge tossed out the convictions of two men who had been found [...]

The pardon came after a North Carolina judge vacated the conviction of Montoyae Dontae Sharpe in 2019, ruling that a key witness had ''entirely made up'' her testimony. Gov. Roy [...]

Byline: Katie Shepherd After Pamela Hupp drove her close friend Betsy Faria home from chemotherapy treatment on Dec. 27, 2011, police identified her as the last person to see Faria [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE, Staff Lead Christine Jessop went missing on Oct. 3, 1984. HANDOUT Toronto Police say they have solved one of the country's most vexing cold cases, the 1984 [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman During 37 years in prison for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Tampa. Fla, Robert DuBoise never stopped trying to prove his innocence.When he [...]

Byline: KK Ottesen Albert Woodfox, 73, is an activist and the author of 'Solitary,' a 2019 National Book Award finalist. Known as one of the Angola Three, along with Robert [...]

Convicted on false testimony, Isaac Wright Jr. learned the law and got his life sentence overturned. 50 Cent knew a good story when he heard one. It's not often you're [...]

Byline: Henry Gass Staff writer Abstract: They served time for crimes they didn't commit and run a nonprofit that investigates cases for other wrongly convicted prisoners. The busiest P.O. box [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman UPDATE, Wednesday, 11 a.m.: The Board of Public Works approved the compensation for the three exonerees, at a total payout of $8.7 million. 'This is something that [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins Walter Lomax, who spent 39 years of his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, was about to testify before a Maryland Senate committee Wednesday [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander Calvin Bright had spent more than two decades imprisoned for a double murder he maintains he did not commit when new evidence surfaced in the case. [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins Nearly 50 Maryland lawmakers, including Democratic House Speaker Adrienne Jones, are calling on Gov. Larry Hogan and the state Board of Public Works to compensate five wrongly [...]

''I hereby sentence you to death.'' The words of Judge Clifford B. Shepard filled the courtroom in Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 27, 1976. Shepard was sentencing Clifford Williams Jr., whom [...]

This is a story of the biggest story of its day, a crime that set a high-water mark for depravity, an urban atrocity that caused existential hand-wringing for America's biggest [...]

Byline: Gus Garcia-Roberts, USA TODAY Keith Bush, who maintained his innocence in a 1975 murder, was finally vindicated after 33 years in prison last week, when he was exonerated by [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] For four decades, Keith Bush insisted he had been convicted as a teenager [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Otis Boone insisted he was innocent from the time he was accused of two [...]

Byline: Gretchen Wenner, Ventura County Star, USA TODAY NETWORK CAMARILLO, Calif. - The city of Simi Valley has reached a $21 million settlement with Craig Coley, who was wrongly convicted [...]