Investigative Reporting
Thirty Years Too Late: How DNA Science Dismantled America's Most Devastating Wrongful Convictions
Since its founding in 1992, the Innocence Project has leveraged advances in forensic DNA technology to free more than 375 Americans who were wrongfully convicted — many of whom spent decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit. These cases expose deep, systemic fractures within the American criminal justice system, from contaminated evidence rooms to eyewitness misidentification and unchecked prosecutorial overreach. Criminal Class Press examines the patterns, the people, and the persiste