BY PHOEBE JONES “Peacocks are sacred birds, you know,” John Floyd tells me on a cool day in mid-February outside of his home in Ridgeland, Mississippi. We are seated next to a pond behind an unassuming apartment complex off a…
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By Jacqueline DeRobertis The LSU Law Center has received a grant to establish a Wrongful Conviction Clinic at the school, allowing law students to review cases of people with claims of innocence. LSU Law, partnering with the Innocence Project New…
By Gerron Jordan Baton Rouge’s Archie Williams was wrongfully convicted of rape and attempted murder in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison at Angola State Penitentiary; once known as the bloodiest prison in America. 36 years later, DNA evidence…
By WDSU Digital Team NEW ORLEANS — The Innocence Project in New Orleans has helped get more than 3,500 masks to those in Louisiana’s prisons. According to organizers, the masks will be distributed to inmates and staff. Group members said…
By Frank Neuner I serve as the chair of the board of directors of the Innocence Project New Orleans. On Jan. 11, 2011, IPNO freed Calvin Duncan, and he came home after more than 28 years in prison. For most…
(Staff Pick) New Orleans native Malayne Schmidt shared her Virginia Beach, Virginia sunroom office where she works as a designer for an architectural firm. (Second Place) Accompanied by her goats — Marco and Greta — at her Bywater home, Angelique Thomas…
Social workers help ensure every person has resources and opportunities, and that work hasn’t stopped during the global COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, it’s adapted and increased because creative, passionate people have dedicated themselves to it. Angelique Thomas, LMSW (SW ‘2016)…
IPNO’s Monday Memo: TAKE ACTION NOW Six days before the Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC) shut down its prisons from visitors, I visited with one of our innocent, life-sentenced prisoners. He was recovering from an illness and explained how he…
How would your life and the lives of your family be impacted if you were wrongly imprisoned for one week? One month? One year? How would that wrongful incarceration affect your career, financial stability, physical and mental health? How much…
By Richard A. Webster ALEXANDRIA, La. — An emergency broadcast alert blares from Elvis Brooks’s cellphone, warning him that a tornado has been spotted in the area. “Seek shelter now,” the electronic voice urges. Brooks shrugs off the threat, though his…
