Help provide food, clothing, housing, and transportation for our clients after wrongful incarceration.

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John,

Today is the final day of our campaign for the Exoneree Fund. Our goal is to raise $40,000 to help pay for basic essentials for our clients the moment they walk free—and we are so close but we still need your support.

Will you chip in today? ([link removed]) Every dollar counts and your gift will pay for basics like housing, food, clothing and transportation for our clients.

If you didn't get a chance to read it, below is an email from Suzy Salamy, a social worker here at the Innocence Project. Suzy writes about her work with clients and their families as they rebuild their lives after wrongful incarceration, and how important the Exoneree Fund ([link removed]) is to making that transition possible.

Thank you for your support,

Maddy deLone
Executive Director

John,

When an innocent client finally walks free, that’s when the months of planning I do as a social worker at the Innocence Project kicks into high gear. I help our clients adjust to life outside of prison and deal with the emotional and psychological effects of having been wrongfully convicted, which never go away.

First though, with every client we start the same way: we buy toiletries, set up a cell phone, and fill out forms for a new ID. Many of us take those things for granted, but they mean so much to someone who walks out of prison with nothing but the clothes they are wearing.


** We’re celebrating the Innocence Project’s 27 years of fighting for justice by raising money for our Exoneree Fund.
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The Exoneree Fund pays for housing, food, medical care, transportation and more for our clients during the first year of their transition to life after wrongful incarceration. Will you make a contribution today? ([link removed]) 100% of your gift will pay for basic essentials.
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For Archie Williams (above alongside his attorneys Vanessa Potkin and Barry Scheck), freedom meant his own train pass to get around on his own after 36 years in Louisiana’s infamous Angola prison for a crime he did not commit. Photo by Innocence Project New Orleans.
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For Belynda Goff (above), freedom meant her first eye exam in 23 years. Photo by Suzy Salamy.
We established the Exoneree Fund because most of our clients leave prison without any compensation from the state. For those who do receive state compensation, it can take years; for some, there is no compensation at all.

Our policy team is working to change the law so that all exonerated people receive compensation, but a client walking out of prison can’t wait for that support. They need a safe place to live, access to quality medical care they’ve gone without, and the necessities that we all count on for our dignity and autonomy as people. The Exoneree Fund lets us give our clients these first elements of a life of freedom that they’ve anticipated for so long.

Please donate to the Exoneree Fund today to give someone what they need to make their first moments of freedom their own. ([link removed])
Thank you,

Suzy Salamy
Social Worker

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