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 201656 Anchorage, AK 99520-1656 ARIZONA Arizona Justice Project Sandra Day O Connor College of Law PO BOX 877906 Tempe, AZ 99520-1656 Northern Arizona Justice Project Robert Schehr, Chair Department of Criminal Justice Northern Arizona University P.O. Box 15005 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5005 ARKANSAS Innocence Project Arkansas School of Law Legal Clinic Robert A. Leflar Law Center 1 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 479-575-3056 Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO 64113 CALIFORNIA California and Hawaii Innocence Project California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101
Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053-0422 University of California - Irvine (not a project, but a resource) William Thompson Department of Criminology, Law & Society University of California Irvine, CA 92697-7080 COLORADO Colorado Innocence Project 404 UCB Boulder, Colorado 80309-0404 CONNECTICUT Connecticut Innocence Project c/o McCarter & English Cityplace I 185 Asylum Street, 36th Floor Hartford, CT 06103 New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109 DELAWARE Office of the Public Defender Carvel State Building 820 French Street, 3rd Floor Wilimington, DE 19801 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016
FLORIDA Innocence Project of Florida 1100 E. Park Ave. Tallahassee, FL 32301 GEORGIA Georgia Innocence Project 2645 North Decatur Road Decatur, GA 30033 IDAHO Idaho Innocence Project Mail Stop 1515 Boise State University 1910 University Drive Boise, ID 83725-1515 ILLINOIS Center on Wrongful Convictions ** Northwestern University School of Law 357 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 Medill Innocence Project Northwestern University 1845 N. Sheridan Ave. Evanston, IL 60208 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 62703-5407 INDIANA Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Clinic, Wrongful Convictions Component 735 West New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202
IOWA Innocence Project of Iowa P.O. Box 93 Estherville, Iowa 51335 Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO 64113 KANSAS Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO 64113 KENTUCKY University of Kentucky Innocence Project 630 College of Law Rm. 225 Lexington, KY 40506-0048 Kentucky Innocence Project 100 Fair Oaks Lane Ste. 301 Frankfort, KY 40601 LOUISIANA Innocence Project New Orleans 3301 Chartres Street New Orleans, LA 70117 Phone: (504) 943-1902 Fax:(504) 943-1905 MAINE New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109
MARYLAND Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016 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 21202 MASSACHUSETTS New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109 MICHIGAN Thomas M. Cooley Innocence Project 300 S. Capitol Ave. P.O. Box 13038 Lansing, MI 48901 Michigan Innocence Clinic 1029 Legal Research Building 625 State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 MINNESOTA Innocence Project of Minnesota Hamline University School of Law 1536 Hewitt Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104 MISSISSIPPI Mississippi Innocence Project University of Mississippi School of Law P.O. Box 1848 University, MS 38677
Innocence Project New Orleans (operates in Louisiana and Mississippi) 3301 Chartres Street New Orleans, LA 70117 Phone: (504) 943-1902 Fax:(504) 943-1905 MISSOURI Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO 64113 MONTANA Montana Innocence Project P.O. Box 8484 Missoula, MT 59802 NEBRASKA Nebraska Innocence Project P.O. Box 24183 Omaha, NE 68124-0183 Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO 64113 NEVADA Rocky Mountain Innocence Center University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law 358 South 700 East Salt Lake City, UT 84102 NEW HAMPSHIRE New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109
NEW JERSEY Centurion Ministries ** 221 Witherspoon Street Princeton, NJ 08542 NEW MEXICO New Mexico Innocence and Justice Project University of New Mexico School of Law 1117 Stanford NE Albuquerque, NM 87131 NEW YORK Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School - Yeshiva University ** 100 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10011 Second Look Program Brooklyn Law School 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Pace Post-Conviction Project Barbara C. Salken Criminal Justice Clinic 78 North Broadway, Room G210 White Plains, NY 10603 Reinvestigation Project Office of the Appellate Defender 11 Park Place, Suite 1601 New York, NY 10007 The Exoneration Initiative 350 Broadway, Suite 1207 New York, NY 10013 NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence Duke/University of North Carolina Law Schools PO Box 52446 Shannon Plaza Station Durham, NC 27717
OHIO Ohio Innocence Project University of Cincinnati College of Law P.O. Box 210040 Cincinnatti, OH 45221-0020 OKLAHOMA Oklahoma Indigent Defense System - DNA Forensic Testing Program P.O. Box 926 Norman, OK 73070 Midwestern Innocence Project 6320 Brookside Plaza #1500 Kansas City, MO 64113 PENNSYLVANIA Duquesne Law Post-Conviction DNA Project 600 Forbes Avenue, 632 Fisher Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15282 The Innocence Institute of Western Pennsylvania c/o Point Park College Department of Journalism and Mass Communications 201 Wood Street Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1984 Pennsylvania Innocence Project Temple University Beasley School of Law 1719 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 RHODE ISLAND New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109
SOUTH CAROLINA Palmetto Innocence Project P.O. Box 11623 Columbia, SC 29211 TEXAS Texas Innocence Network 100 Law Center Houston, TX 77204-6060 Texas Center for Actual Innocence University of Texas School of Law 727 East Dean Keeton Street Austin, TX 78705 Innocence Project of Texas 1511 Texas Avenue Lubbock, TX 79401 Wesleyan Innocence Project Texas Wesleyan Univesity School of Law 1515 Commerce St. Fort Worth, TX 76102 UTAH Rocky Mountain Innocence Center 358 South 700 East, B235 Salt Lake City, UT 84103 VERMONT New England Innocence Project Goodwin Procter LLP Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109
VIRGINIA Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016 Innocence Project at UVA School of Law 580 Massie Road Charlottesville, VA 22901 WASHINGTON Innocence Project Northwest University of Washington William H. Gates Hall, Suite 265 P.O. Box 85110 Seattle, WA 98145-1110 WISCONSIN Wisconsin Innocence Project ** University of Wisconsin Law School Remington Center Madison, WI 53706 WYOMING Rocky Mountain Innocence Center 358 South 700 East, B235 Salt Lake City, UT 84103 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
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 30306 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
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 10004 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) 1150 18 th Street, NW, Suite 950 Washington, DC 20036 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 20036 Southern Center for Human Rights 83 Poplar Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30303 CURE P.O. Box 2310 National Capitol Station Washington, DC 20013-2310 Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation 1612 K St., NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20006 (for drug cases involving excessive sentence) INNOCENT! Doug Tjapkes, President 20 W. Muskegon Ave.
Muskegon, MI 49440 Phone: (231) 725-7228 http://www.aboutinnocent.org Resources for Prisoners Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse Cases National Child Abuse Defense and Resource Center P.O. Box 638 Holland, OH 43528 False Memory Syndrome Foundation 1955 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-5766