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WriteAPrisoner.com is an online Florida-based business. The business's goal is to reduce recidivism through a variety of methods that include positive correspondence with pen pals on the outside, educational opportunities, job placement avenues, resource guides, scholarships for children affected by crime, and advocacy.
Agofsky, 53, claims he is innocent in the 1989 bank president murder case and disputes how he was charged in the stomping death case. Shannon Agofsky was convicted of two separate murders in 1989 ...
Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records in the United States has been illegal since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring, retention, promotion, benefits, and delegated duties.
Most important is the development of a system to assess prisoners maintaining innocence, to distinguish potentially innocent prisoners from the prisoners who claim innocence for other reasons like "ignorance, misunderstanding or disagreement with criminal law; to protect another person or group from criminal conviction; or on 'abuse of process ...
A Controversial Conviction. Peltier’s conviction has drawn scrutiny over the decades. A key prosecution witness later admitted to fabricating her relationship with Peltier and falsely claiming ...
Investigating Innocence founder Bill Clutter (center) with exonerees Ryan Ferguson and David Camm (right). Investigating Innocence [1] is a nonprofit wrongful conviction advocacy organization that provides criminal defense investigations for inmates in the United States. [2]
After more than 30 years on death row for a crime he says he didn’t commit, California inmate Jarvis Jay Masters finally has a chance to be free, thanks to the support of a high-profile backer.
Thomas Jefferson granted amnesty to any citizen convicted of a crime under the Alien and Sedition Acts. Abraham Lincoln used clemency during the U.S. Civil War to encourage desertions from the Confederate Army; in 1868, his successor, Andrew Johnson, pardoned Jefferson Davis , the former president of the Confederacy, which was perhaps the most ...