First Steps After Wrongful Imprisonment

After years of wrongful imprisonment, the transition back to life on the outside tends to be rough. Most of our clients were released with only the clothes on their backs and left to fend for themselves, ineligible even for the services that parolees receive (because they were not on parole).

We specialize in helping people released after wrongful imprisonment navigate the first steps out of prison. We’ve done this work with more than 100 clients nationwide, and stay with them start-to-finish through the typical bureaucratic snarl of getting some of the things they need most, including:

  • photo ID & social security card

  • cell phone

  • stimulus payments

  • enrolling in health care and then seeing doctors and dentists

  • getting the most out of local social service providers

 

117 CLIENTS ASSISTED

SINCE 2016 IN THEIR FIRST STEPS OUT OF PRISON

23 INNOCENCE ORGANIZATIONS

REFER THEIR RELEASED CLIENTS TO AFTER INNOCENCE FOR HELP

96%* OF OUR CLIENTS

SAY THEY ARE “EXTREMELY LIKELY” TO RECOMMEND AFTER INNOCENCE TO ANOTHER EXONEREE

*BASED ON RESPONSES TO OUR 2021 CLIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY THROUGH Listen4Good

 

“The most difficult part of coming home has been re-entry. I was in need of many things. I didn't even have an ID. I had to get a birth certificate and you know, that's a process where you have to do one thing before you can do the next. If I had to tell anybody where to go for help, it would be After Innocence.”

John Nolley
Fort Worth, Texas
Wrongfully Imprisoned: 19 years

John Nolley Fort Worth, Texas Wrongfully Imprisoned
 
 
Kevin Harrington Detroit, Michigan Wrongfully Imprisoned

“When I was released, I needed help with things like finding doctors and urgent medical care, and getting my driver's license, my social security card, basic things like that. And After Innocence helped me, all the way from California, making calls and making connections.”

Kevin Harrington
Detroit, Michigan
Wrongfully Imprisoned: 17.5 Years

 

 

Help Ease Their First Steps After Wrongful Conviction

On average, every 54 hours another wrongly incarcerated person walks free somewhere in the United States. Your contribution will enable us to reach more of them with some of the help they need most to get back on their feet.