Life After Justice

Life After Justice This ecosystem of support empowers wrongfully convicted individuals to successfully reenter their home communities.

Life After Justice (LAJ) is an impacted, created and led non-profit that frees innocent individuals and combats systemic issues through advocacy with data-driven strategic litigation and the creation of a holistic support ecosystem. Life After Justice attacks injustice and supports exonerees on three fronts - through strategic litigation to change poorly written laws, economic advocacy to provide

exonerees with fair compensation, and by providing the holistic mental health and technology support needed to adjust to post-exoneration life. Justice reform does not start and stop at prevention, it also requires us to repair the damage already done by ill-conceived and poorly written legislation and the resulting laws. Since 1989, innocent people have lost more than 26,500 years of their lives sitting in prisons across America. The majority (65%!) of those stolen years belong to black and brown people. Women, an often invisible incarcerated group, represent 10% of the total prison population (231,000) and more than half have not yet been convicted of a crime and are presumed innocent. Collectively the exoneree-led leadership team of Life After Justice - Jarrett Adams, Antione Day, Tyra Patterson, Anna Vasquez, and Ramon Ward - represent more than 100 of those stolen years. Since their exonerations, the leadership team is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the innocent women and men grossly harmed by our broken system. Our goal is to empower exonerees to thrive while starting to reclaim their lives after justice. Please visit our website at https://www.lifeafterjustice.org to learn more about our efforts and how you can get involved.

Freedom is incomplete without the research that stops the next wrongful conviction, the legal fight that gets people hom...
05/14/2026

Freedom is incomplete without the research that stops the next wrongful conviction, the legal fight that gets people home, and the resources that make it possible to actually live — to heal, to rebuild, to thrive.

Life After Justice is doing all of that work. Support it at the link in bio! 🤍

Mental health awareness doesn’t start and end in May — it’s at the center of everything we do. This month, we’re highlig...
05/12/2026

Mental health awareness doesn’t start and end in May — it’s at the center of everything we do.

This month, we’re highlighting our Holistic Mental Health and Wellness Empowerment Program and the survivors it was built to serve. Learn more and support the work at the link in bio. 💚

PTSD, anxiety, depression, sleep issues, broken trust, and the ongoing fight to feel safe again.People impacted by wrong...
05/04/2026

PTSD, anxiety, depression, sleep issues, broken trust, and the ongoing fight to feel safe again.

People impacted by wrongful conviction and their families are rebuilding their lives in a world that too often says “just be grateful you’re free.” That isn’t healing.

At LAJ, we support that rebuilding through trauma-informed care, community, and real, ongoing resources. 💚 Learn more at lifeafterjustice.org. 🫂 Share this post to help others understand the mental health impact.

05/01/2026

Relearning how to be in the world, after years of surviving, is its own kind of labor. Antoine, and Co-founder of LAJ, watched other people to understand how to navigate. He had no program and no roadmap. That absence is exactly what Life After Justice was built to change, not just for one person, but for families and whole communities that have carried this weight. 🫂

This May, we’re reminded that mental health is communal, and so is healing. 💚

Learn more about how we support survivors and their families at the link in our bio.

Earth Day is about the planet, but it has always been about who the planet is being taken from. Environmental justice is...
04/22/2026

Earth Day is about the planet, but it has always been about who the planet is being taken from. Environmental justice is justice. We cannot protect the Earth without protecting the people most burdened by what we build on it. 🌎🍃💚

This week’s stories reflect a familiar tension — progress in some places, resistance in others.From compensation battles...
04/21/2026

This week’s stories reflect a familiar tension — progress in some places, resistance in others.

From compensation battles to innocence claims and policy reforms, questions of accountability and repair remain front and center.

And once again, many of these underscore a difficult truth: too often, the burden of correcting wrongful convictions still falls on those most harmed by them.

Here’s your weekly look at what’s unfolding.

Chicago, we’ll be back soon! 🚕🌭🍕⚾️Join us May 08 & 09 for an in-person opportunity to take the National Amplification Ca...
04/21/2026

Chicago, we’ll be back soon! 🚕🌭🍕⚾️

Join us May 08 & 09 for an in-person opportunity to take the National Amplification Campaign Survey with support from LAJ’s Research Team. 🫂

This activation is for people directly impacted by wrongful incarceration and their loved ones. If you’re local and that includes you, we invite you to participate!

We’re creating space for community, wellness, and financial empowerment throughout the two-day activation.

To participate in person, click sign up and select your preferred time slot. This helps ensure we can provide the time, support, and attention each participant deserves! 🕧🕐🕜

This survey turns lived experience into data that can help shape policy, strengthen advocacy, and build support rooted in what people actually need.

Your voice belongs in this. 🩵🧡

📍 Chicago
📅 May 8–9
🔗 Sign up through the link in bio

Last week in Chicago was one for the books. From Antoine opening the weekend, to our team presenting on the National Am...
04/17/2026

Last week in Chicago was one for the books.

From Antoine opening the weekend, to our team presenting on the National Amplification Campaign survey, to reconnecting with this powerful community — we left inspired, energized, and even more committed to the work ahead. 💛

One line from Antoine’s remarks stayed with us: “This work is not just about justice. It’s about dignity. It’s about restoration.” That spirit carried throughout the week.

Thank you to everyone we shared space with in Chicago. We’re honored to be building with you. 🫂

One year ago today, Ferrone Claiborne came home. ♥️After more than two decades of wrongful incarceration, April 8, 2025 ...
04/08/2026

One year ago today, Ferrone Claiborne came home. ♥️

After more than two decades of wrongful incarceration, April 8, 2025 marked a moment that should have come much sooner. It was a return to family, to community, and to a life that had been put on hold for years.

Over the past year, Ferrone has been navigating what it means to rebuild. Reconnecting with loved ones, reclaiming time, and stepping into a world that kept moving without him.

This milestone holds more than reflection. It is a reminder of what was taken and what still remains ahead. The fight to fully clear his name continues.

We honor this year for what it represents. Resilience, reunion, and the ongoing pursuit of justice.

Stand with Ferrone. Learn more about his case and support the work at lifeafterjustice.org

Delayed compensation, decades lost, and cases built on flawed evidence continue to shape the realities people are naviga...
04/07/2026

Delayed compensation, decades lost, and cases built on flawed evidence continue to shape the realities people are navigating after wrongful incarceration.

At the same time, pathways to exoneration are becoming increasingly difficult.

These stories point to more than individual cases, they reveal where systems continue to fall short.

Swipe through for last week’s Second Look.

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