Georgetown University: Six Wrongful Murder Convictions Subject of Second Prison Reform Course

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, who served almost 18 years in several maximum-security prisons for the murder of his parents before his 2007 exoneration and release. Read more here.