ORGANIZATIONS THAT ASSIST INNOCENT PRISONERS (BY STATE)

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1 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ASSIST INNOCENT PRISONERS (BY STATE) (May not be a comprehensive list) **Accepts cases from any state in the country ALASKA Alaska Innocence Project P.O. Box Anchorage, AK ARIZONA Arizona Justice Project Sandra Day O Connor College of Law PO BOX Tempe, AZ Northern Arizona Justice Project Robert Schehr, Chair Department of Criminal Justice Northern Arizona University P.O. Box Flagstaff, AZ ARKANSAS Innocence Project Arkansas School of Law Legal Clinic Robert A. Leflar Law Center 1 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO CALIFORNIA California and Hawaii Innocence Project California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101

2 Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA University of California - Irvine (not a project, but a resource) William Thompson Department of Criminology, Law & Society University of California Irvine, CA COLORADO Colorado Innocence Project 404 UCB Boulder, Colorado CONNECTICUT Connecticut Innocence Project c/o McCarter & English Cityplace I 185 Asylum Street, 36th Floor Hartford, CT New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA DELAWARE Office of the Public Defender Carvel State Building 820 French Street, 3rd Floor Wilimington, DE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016

3 FLORIDA Innocence Project of Florida 1100 E. Park Ave. Tallahassee, FL GEORGIA Georgia Innocence Project 2645 North Decatur Road Decatur, GA IDAHO Idaho Innocence Project Mail Stop 1515 Boise State University 1910 University Drive Boise, ID ILLINOIS Center on Wrongful Convictions ** Northwestern University School of Law 357 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL Medill Innocence Project Northwestern University 1845 N. Sheridan Ave. Evanston, IL Downstate Illinois Innocence Project Institute for Legal and Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield One University Plaza MS Public Affairs Center 451 Springfield, IL INDIANA Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Clinic, Wrongful Convictions Component 735 West New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202

4 IOWA Innocence Project of Iowa P.O. Box 93 Estherville, Iowa Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO KANSAS Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO KENTUCKY University of Kentucky Innocence Project 630 College of Law Rm. 225 Lexington, KY Kentucky Innocence Project 100 Fair Oaks Lane Ste. 301 Frankfort, KY LOUISIANA Innocence Project New Orleans 3301 Chartres Street New Orleans, LA Phone: (504) Fax:(504) MAINE New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109

5 MARYLAND Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC Maryland Office of the Public Defender Innocence Project Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland 201 East Baltimore Street Suite 1600 Baltimore, MD MASSACHUSETTS New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA MICHIGAN Thomas M. Cooley Innocence Project 300 S. Capitol Ave. P.O. Box Lansing, MI Michigan Innocence Clinic 1029 Legal Research Building 625 State Street Ann Arbor, MI MINNESOTA Innocence Project of Minnesota Hamline University School of Law 1536 Hewitt Avenue St. Paul, MN MISSISSIPPI Mississippi Innocence Project University of Mississippi School of Law P.O. Box 1848 University, MS 38677

6 Innocence Project New Orleans (operates in Louisiana and Mississippi) 3301 Chartres Street New Orleans, LA Phone: (504) Fax:(504) MISSOURI Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO MONTANA Montana Innocence Project P.O. Box 8484 Missoula, MT NEBRASKA Nebraska Innocence Project P.O. Box Omaha, NE Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO NEVADA Rocky Mountain Innocence Center University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law 358 South 700 East Salt Lake City, UT NEW HAMPSHIRE New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109

7 NEW JERSEY Centurion Ministries ** 221 Witherspoon Street Princeton, NJ NEW MEXICO New Mexico Innocence and Justice Project University of New Mexico School of Law 1117 Stanford NE Albuquerque, NM NEW YORK Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School - Yeshiva University ** 100 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor New York, NY Second Look Program Brooklyn Law School 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY Pace Post-Conviction Project Barbara C. Salken Criminal Justice Clinic 78 North Broadway, Room G210 White Plains, NY Reinvestigation Project Office of the Appellate Defender 11 Park Place, Suite 1601 New York, NY The Exoneration Initiative 350 Broadway, Suite 1207 New York, NY NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence Duke/University of North Carolina Law Schools PO Box Shannon Plaza Station Durham, NC 27717

8 OHIO Ohio Innocence Project University of Cincinnati College of Law P.O. Box Cincinnatti, OH OKLAHOMA Oklahoma Indigent Defense System - DNA Forensic Testing Program P.O. Box 926 Norman, OK Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO PENNSYLVANIA Duquesne Law Post-Conviction DNA Project 600 Forbes Avenue, 632 Fisher Hall Pittsburgh, PA The Innocence Institute of Western Pennsylvania c/o Point Park College Department of Journalism and Mass Communications 201 Wood Street Pittsburgh, PA Pennsylvania Innocence Project Temple University Beasley School of Law 1719 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA RHODE ISLAND New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109

9 SOUTH CAROLINA Palmetto Innocence Project P.O. Box Columbia, SC TEXAS Texas Innocence Network 100 Law Center Houston, TX Texas Center for Actual Innocence University of Texas School of Law 727 East Dean Keeton Street Austin, TX Innocence Project of Texas 1511 Texas Avenue Lubbock, TX Wesleyan Innocence Project Texas Wesleyan Univesity School of Law 1515 Commerce St. Fort Worth, TX UTAH Rocky Mountain Innocence Center 358 South 700 East, B235 Salt Lake City, UT VERMONT New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109

10 VIRGINIA Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC Innocence Project at UVA School of Law 580 Massie Road Charlottesville, VA WASHINGTON Innocence Project Northwest University of Washington William H. Gates Hall, Suite 265 P.O. Box Seattle, WA WISCONSIN Wisconsin Innocence Project ** University of Wisconsin Law School Remington Center Madison, WI WYOMING Rocky Mountain Innocence Center 358 South 700 East, B235 Salt Lake City, UT CANADA INTERNATIONAL Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) 111 Peter Street, Suite 626 Toronto, Ontario M5V 2H1 Canada University of British Columbia Law Innocence Project 1822 East Mall Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 CANADA

11 Osgoode Hall Innocence Project Osgoode Hall Law School at York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada ENGLAND / UNITED KINGDOM University of Leeds Innocence Project 20 Lyddon Terrace Leeds, LS2 9JT United Kingdom Innocence Network UK c/o University of Bristol Department of Law Willis Memorial Building Queen s Road Bristol BS8 1 RJ United Kingdom AUSTRALIA Griffith University Innocence Project Parklands Drive Southport, 4215 QLD Australia The Sellenger Center Edith Cowan University 270 Jonndalup Drive Joondalup, WA 6027 Australia University of Melbourne Innocence Project Vanessa Stafford, Director University of Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton Melbourne Victoria 3040 Australia

12 NEW ZEALAND Innocence Project New Zealand School of Psychology Victoria University of Wellington P.O. Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand Other Groups That Help Prisoners or Handle Prisoner Cases American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 125 Broad Street, 18 th Floor New York, NY Each state has a local ACLU; write to this national office to ask for the address of the ACLU in your state. National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) th Street, NW, Suite 950 Washington, DC Most states have a local association of criminal defense lawyers that can help you find an attorney or other resources; you can write to this national office to ask for the criminal defense association in your state. National Legal Aid & Defenders Association (NLADA) 1140 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC Southern Center for Human Rights 83 Poplar Street, NW Atlanta, GA CURE P.O. Box 2310 National Capitol Station Washington, DC Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation 1612 K St., NW Suite 700 Washington, DC (for drug cases involving excessive sentence) INNOCENT! Doug Tjapkes, President 20 W. Muskegon Ave.

13 Muskegon, MI Phone: (231) Resources for Prisoners Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse Cases National Child Abuse Defense and Resource Center P.O. Box 638 Holland, OH False Memory Syndrome Foundation 1955 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA