Center on Wrongful Convictions

Wrongful convictions have ruined lives and wasted tax dollars. They represent a shameful and reprehensible miscarriage of justice. But a measure of accountability can still be salvaged, even decades after the fact.

CHICAGO — After spending almost two decades in jail for a rape and murder he didn't commit, Robert Taylor walked out of an Illinois prison a fre...

Anthony McKinney and Armando Serrano are serving long prison terms for murder. Both were wrongfully convicted. And Cook Co. prosecutors have turned their fight for freedom into a bizarre sideshow.

Almost 23 years ago, Jacques Rivera was convicted of a brutal murder of 16-year-old Felix Valentin, who was shot 11 times in a car during the violent ...

In most police and courtroom dramas, crimes are solved as soon as a character confesses. However, as a new book shows, a confession is sometimes only the beginning of the real story.

Even when there is compelling evidence of actual innocence, it can be almost impossible to shake a mistaken but firmly held belief in a convicted person's guilt.

You might think that judges would be willing to review convictions based on testimony that was later recanted, but in fact courts frequently ignore recantations.