CHICAGO, Ill. (WCIA) — Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill providing greater restitution for people that are wrongfully ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A state board has approved paying more than $600,000 in total to two Ohio men who were found to be wrongfully ...

The state of Ohio will pay $506,717 as the first installment to Marcus Sapp, who spent 13 years wrongfully imprisoned.

For the past 25 years, the Midwest Innocence Project has worked at no cost to free incarcerated individuals who believe they ...

Sapp spent 13 years in prison for murder. An investigation by the Ohio Innocence Project uncovered evidence implicating ...

The legislation would hike the maximum payout to $50,000 for each year spent behind bars and $25,000 per year on probation or parole, or under an order to register as a sex offender. “This will make a ...

For the past 25 years, the Midwest Innocence Project has worked at no cost to free incarcerated individuals who believe they ...

The Midwest Innocence Project has spent 24 years freeing the wrongfully convicted. Now it's running out of money. From David ...

Kevin Jackson was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 22 years in prison before he was freed. Now he has realized his ...

A settlement agreement received through a Freedom of Information Act request is the state's largest payout to a wrongfully ...