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Before the discovery of DNA testing, it was believed that more than 100,000 Americans were wrongly incarcerated throughout the United States. But that all changed in the early 1990's when two civil rights attorney member's, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, created The Innocence Project. After over 25 years, The Innocence Project created more than 30 projects similar to this one and have now become known as The Innocence Network. Going through Cardozo School of Law, students studying in law have the opportunity to help wrongly incarcerated prisoners. With this program, hundreds of falsely charged prisoners have been proven innocent and released.

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After being charged with rape and robbery in 1979, Cornelius Dupree was sentenced 75 years in a Texas prison. Three decades later, after being denied three attempts of appeal, The Innocence Project was able to gather enough evidence to free him from prison. According to The innocence project, they cannot help every innocent person in jail, and only few are set free. Soon after his release made headlines, Texas was deamed to have the most racists justice system in the United States.

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Another Texas inmate, Charles Chatmas, was released from a Dallas County prison after spending over half his life behind prison bars. Similar to Cornelius Dupree, Charles was accused of aggrivated sexual assault back in 1981 and was sentenced to 99 years in jail. Thanks to the Innocence Project, they were able to free another innocent man from prison. Soon after being released, Charles made new life plans to work for the Innocence Project and is fighting to free a few people he knows personally from the same fate as he himself had.

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Fair Trials International is a registered charity campaign that not only fights for the innocence of the wrongly incarcerated but fights to improve the justice systems around the word. After being established in the 1990's, many prisoners have been proven innocent and set free. As of February, 2011 Fair Trials is looking to recruit Policy and Events Interns.

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Unlike the other programs listed on my website, Life After Exoneration not only helps free the wrongly accused from prison but also teaches them how to reajust to life on the outside. Most people who have been falsely incarcerated and proven innocent are imprisoned for between 15-50 years. After spending the majority of their lives behind prison walls, inmates not only lose their sense of society but are thrown into a life that has years of change.