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. To date, the work of the Innocence Project has led to the freeing of 337 wrongfully convicted people, including 18 who spent time on death row.