John,
The journey to an exoneration starts with a letter sent to my team in the intake department.
Since 1992, we’ve received over 65,600 letters from people in prison requesting our help in securing their freedom. The intake team goes through a meticulous process to evaluate each case to see if we can help. Building a new legal case requires a lot of time, patience, and resources — on average, a client spends 16 years in prison before they are exonerated.
There are so many people out there who are incarcerated for things they didn’t do — and we do all that we can to help them from their first letter to us and onward. Will you make a dollar-for-dollar, matched donation up to $75,000 right now before the Innocence Project’s deadline on June 30 to support our work of freeing innocent people?
A letter has the power to change an innocent person’s life. Your donation has the power to sustain our advocacy for our clients on their long journey to exoneration.
My team works every day to help new clients build their innocence cases. You don’t know each person’s name yet, but we hope that one day you will get to know their stories and celebrate their freedom with us.
The years of hard work that starts with my team are always worth it. We celebrate every single exoneration — there’s nothing like seeing a person who wrote to us asking for help, finally getting to hug their loved ones after wrongful incarceration.
Your matched donation will help us free the next innocent person, adding to the more than 240 people the Innocence Project has fought to free or exonerate over the last 30 years. Will you help us sustain our work for the year to come?
Thank you for your support,
William Woods
Director of Intake & Case Evaluation
Innocence Project
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