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.
