Media
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After Innocence founder and director Jon Eldan is an attorney in Oakland, California. His work has been profiled by The Marshall Project, Berkeley Law School, California Magazine, HuffPost and Time Magazine.
Here is a selection of earned media coverage:
Selected Media Coverage
24 Years for a Crime He Didn't Commit. Who Helps You After Exoneration?
Wrongfully Convicted People Have No Idea They’re Owed Back Thousands In Taxes
How the Wrongfully Convicted Can Get Their Due from the IRS
WNYC Studios, The Takeaway
December 12, 2018
Exonerees Racing Against a Tax Clock
The Marshall Project
November 19, 2018
Fake Innocence: A lawyer’s scheme to stage a phony exoneration and cash in
The Marshall Project
May 5, 2018
Oakland Magazine
February 12, 2018
Black Hole: The Injustice of Wrongful Incarceration Doesn’t End When the Prison Doors Open
California Monthly
Winter 2016
For The Wrongfully Convicted, Time Runs Short To Get Tax Relief
HuffPost
November 21, 2016
HuffPost (Dec. 2016), The Atlantic (Feb. 2016)
After Prison, The Exonerated Face a Different Kind of Hell
Mother Jones
(Nov. 2016)
The Marshall Project (June 2016)
Time Magazine
Life After Exoneration: A New Start, A New Smile
News13
Dental Project 2019: [None mentioning After Innocence] (Nate Meyers, John Brown, Faye Jacobs, Maurice Caldwell, Ricky Kidd, Ian Simmers, Brad Holbrook, Dean McKee, Juan Melendez, Richard Williams, Darwin Crabtree)]