The Innocence Project and its sister agencies (including the Connecticut Innocence Project), the Center on Wrongful Convictions, and the Life After Exoneration Program have helped to free and/or support over two hundred wrongfully convicted individuals. However, there are many innocent people in U.S. prisons today. To learn more, contact:
•The Innocence Project: http://www.innocenceproject.org/
•The Innocence Network: http://www.innocencenetwork.org/
•Connecticut Innocence Project: http://www.ocpd.state.ct.us/Content/Innocence%20Project/Innocence%20Project.htm
•Center on Wrongful Convictions: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/
•Death Penalty Information Center: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
•Life After Exoneration Program: http://www.exonerated.org/content/index.php
Books about the Legal System, the Death Penalty and Wrongful Convictions:
•Allen, Howard W., Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History. Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb; with the assistance of Vincent A. Lacey. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2008.
•Baumgartner, Frank R., De Boef, Suzanne, and Boydstun, Amber. The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
•Cohen, Stanley. The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions. Carroll and Graf, 2003.
•Davis, Angela J. Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
•Dwyer, Jim, Neufeld, Peter, and Scheck, Barry. Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right. 2d ed., New American Library, 2001.
•Gould, Jon B. The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System. New York: NYU Press, 2007.
•Vollen, Lola and Eggers, Dave. Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005.
Books about the Exonerated in this Production:
•Cook, Kerry Max. Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself after Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit. New York: William Morrow, 2007.
•Gauger, Gary and Julie Von Bergen. In Spite of the System: A Personal Story of Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration. Lake Geneva, WI: Fourcatfarm Press, 2008.
•Jacobs, Sunny. Stolen Time: The Inspiring Story of an Innocent Woman Condemned to Death. London: Doubleday, 2007.
•Jensen, Erik and Jessica Blank. Living Justice: Love, Freedom, and the Making of The Exonerated. Atria Press, 2005.
•Interview with Delbert Tibbs in Terkel, Studs. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith. New York: New Press, 2001.
•Tibbs, Delbert. Selected Poems and Other Word/Works, available at www.delberttibbs.com
Films and Documentaries:
•After Innocence. Directed by Jessica Sanders. New York: New Yorker Video, 2007.
•Deadline. A film by Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson. Big Mouth Productions. United States: Home Vision Entertainment, 2004.
•The Exonerated. Written by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank. Directed by Bob Balaban. Court TV: 2005.
•In the Blink of an Eye. Directed by Micki Dickoff. United States: Platinum Disc, 2004.