An Indiana woman convicted of murder two decades ago and who once escaped from prison, is now trying to be released and restart her life. On Friday, a Marion County judge heard a petition to modify Sarah Pender's 110-year consecutive sentence.

An Indiana woman convicted of murder two decades ago and who once escaped from prison, is now trying to be released and restart her life. On Friday, a Marion County judge heard a petition to modify Sarah Pender's 110-year consecutive sentence.

After spending nearly 28 years in a Louisiana prison for a crime he did not commit, John Kinsel is finally free.

Ivery Dorsey stepped out of Pam Lychner State Jail in Humble, Texas, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, as a free man. He was wrongfully convicted of murder and incarcerated in Houston for 18 years and two months, and was finally released on parole. Dorsey is the third person to be released with the help of Princeton students in less than two years.

For incarcerated people and their families, the holidays can be a painful reminder of time lost away from loved ones. However, for the first time in decades, both Gary Benloss and Rodney Derrickson will be spending this holiday season reunited with their families.

For Edward Martinez, May 24 has held a profound significance for the past 21 years, marking the birth of his daughter, Freedom. Now, over two decades later, this already meaningful date has taken on an even greater significance for Martinez and his family. 

19-year-old Marty Tankleff was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for the murder of his parents, a crime he didn't commit.

As a teenager in the mid-1980s, Christina Boyer became a media sensation after she and her family claimed she possessed the ability to move objects with her mind. She returned to the headlines in 1992 when she was charged with the murder of her 3-year-old daughter, Amber.

Keith A. Washington, the county's deputy homeland security official, said two deliverymen attacked him in his home, forcing him to shoot them. A jury didn't believe him, but prosecutors believe he has served enough time.

Eric Riddick spent nearly 30 years behind bars for a murder he says he did not commit. But on Friday, he walked free. “I feel great, I feel great,” Riddick, 51, said as he left a Philadelphia courthouse. “They say it takes a village to raise a child. I guess it takes a village to raise justice, too,” he went on to say, adding that the rush of emotions was “overwhelming.”

“As he struggled to get his conviction overturned, Mr. Dixon got help from a varied cast of characters. They included journalists at Golf Digest, a new district attorney in Erie County, witnesses whose accounts were never presented at trial, a dogged team of undergraduate students at Georgetown University, and one man who had direct experience with long incarcerations: Martin Tankleff, who was imprisoned for 17 years after being wrongly convicted of murdering his parents and was released in 2007.”

“But while golf got the ball rolling, so to speak, the decisive push to clear Dixon of the murder charges came from an equally unlikely source — a group of Georgetown undergraduate students, who enrolled in our Prison Reform Project course this past spring. We designed the class to be a unique opportunity for students to learn from our own personal experience of correcting a wrongful conviction, and to work on real-life, active, unresolved, and difficult cases.”

“Marc M. Howard has known his Georgetown University colleague Marty Tankleff since they were 3 years old. In their teenage years, their lives went in different directions: Howard went to college, and then to graduate school to become a professor…”

“Georgetown welcomed the recently exonerated Valentino Dixon of Buffalo, New York, to share his story on a panel yesterday with three students who successfully challenged his wrongful murder conviction.”

“The coronavirus pandemic continues to impact graduations around the country. Seniors from Georgetown University are set to walk the virtual stage this weekend, but two seniors continue their work even though they’ll have degrees.

"We still have a lot of legal work to do," Georgetown University senior Johnsenia Brooks said.”

“The Prison Reform Project course in which students last year helped free a wrongfully convicted man imprisoned for over 27 years recently presented another set of investigations that may one day lead to new exonerations.

This year, students looked at six cases in the course taught by Marc Howard, director of the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI), and his childhood friend Marty Tankleff…”

“At the time, three Georgetown University students took on Dixon’s case as a part of a “Making an Exoneree” class.

“I knew immediately I was coming home,” Dixon said, of being told the news that the students were interested in his case. “It was like a feeling just came over me.”

On Wednesday, he was back at Georgetown University meeting with students as they gear up to present six others' cases that they are currently working on.

“A petition for the exoneration of Eric Riddick, a Pennsylvania inmate who was sentenced to life in prison in 1992 for first degree murder, has received over 2,780 signatures since three Georgetown University students created it March 29…Alexander Buffone (COL ’20), Kendell Long (COL ’19) and Taylor Riddick (COL ’19), students in Professor Marc Howard’s “Prison Reform Project” class, created the petition as part of the Georgetown’s Prisons and Justice Initiative’s “Making an Exoneree” project.”

“A wrongfully convicted New York man who became known for his drawings of lush golf courses has reunited with the Georgetown University students who helped get him freed after 27 years in prison.

Valentino Dixon received a warm applause when he visited the university Thursday night for the "Golf Art Saved Me, Georgetown Set Me Free" panel.”

“A team of Georgetown undergraduate students and professors helped exonerate Valentino Dixon, who spent 26 years in prison after being found guilty of murder, on Sept. 19. Three undergraduate students in professor Marc Howard’s spring 2018 “Prison Reform Project” seminar assisted with the case, unearthing new evidence that led to Dixon’s release.”