In the two states with the highest incarceration rates in the world, Innocence Project New Orleans frees innocent prisoners, exposes injustice and prevents wrongful convictions.

IPNO has won the freedom or exoneration of 21 wrongfully convicted prisoners. These men served nearly 420 years in Louisiana and Mississippi’s prisons between them.

There is a solid consensus in the scientific community that nearly every form of forensic evidence except for DNA is far less reliable than once thought.

Earl Truvia was convicted at age 17 in 1975 of second-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole until he was exonerated in 2003.