Freedom is only the beginning. After years or decades in prison, people returning home face immediate decisions about housing, work, identification, health care, transportation, and family. There is no pause button while they figure it out.

On International Wrongful Conviction Day, join Midwest Innocence Project for Life After Freedom: Reentry Simulation, an interactive experience that puts participants inside the real-life pressures of rebuilding after incarceration.

Forensic science can be powerful evidence. It is not magic, and it is not always conclusive. During National Forensic Science Week, we are sharing a few things worth knowing about how forensic evidence is collected, tested, interpreted, and challenged.

Freedom is the beginning. What comes next is the work of rebuilding. Join us on International Wrongful Conviction Day for Life After Freedom: Reentry Simulation, an interactive experience that puts you face-to-face with the barriers people can encounter after incarceration.

Housing. Work. Identification. Health care. Transportation. Family. The clock is already running. For people released after wrongful convictions, freedom can come after years or decades away. The work of rebuilding starts immediately.

You helped save MIP. Now you can help strengthen and sustain the fight for freedom. @HuschBlackwell will match every gift, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 as MIP works toward its next goal of raising $175,000.

After 43 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Kevin Strickland came home to a world he barely recognized. Freedom was only the beginning.

You helped save MIP. Now you can help strengthen and sustain the fight for freedom. @HuschBlackwell will match every gift, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 as MIP works toward its next goal of raising $175,000.

Your gift helps keep attorneys and investigators moving active cases forward, supports clients as they rebuild after release, and ensures people seeking freedom still have somewhere to turn.

One of the most memorable scenes in My Cousin Vinny starts with a simple question: "Are these magic grits?" The joke isn't really about breakfast. It's about slowing down and asking whether the facts actually make sense.

MIP attorneys and investigators don't begin with conclusions. They begin with questions, following the evidence wherever it leads. If you love My Cousin Vinny, you're in luck. Join MIP for a special screening at Screenland Armour on September 27th!

People often use “freed” and “exonerated” interchangeably, but they mean different things. Someone may be freed from prison without being exonerated.

An exoneration means a person has been legally cleared of the crime they were convicted of. For many wrongfully convicted people, getting out of prison is only the beginning.