Life After Justice

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

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. 🫂

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

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.

04/01/2026

Closing out Women’s History Month with this:
Stay curious. Ask questions.
�Be humble enough to learn and ask for help.

As women, we’re often expected to have the answers.�But real impact starts with being willing to understand first.

04/01/2026

Did you know?
March is National Nutrition Month.

For people impacted by wrongful incarceration, nutrition is shaped by both what happens inside and the barriers that follow after release.

From limited access to nourishing food to systemic challenges like unemployment and restricted benefits, maintaining basic health is not guaranteed.

At Life After Justice, we center full reentry, including the physical and mental well-being of those impacted.

Support this work. Your donation helps expand access and build pathways toward real healing. 🤍🌱 Link in bio!

03/30/2026

This work didn’t start in a boardroom, it started with lived experience. For Joi, that meant growing up visiting prisons and later becoming the wife of someone who was wrongfully incarcerated — a loved one navigating it alongside them.

Seeing it from that perspective reveals what’s often overlooked: the women.

The wives, mothers, sisters, and loved ones carrying the weight of something they never should have had to. And in many cases, women who were wrongfully incarcerated themselves.

And still, their voices are too often left out of the conversation.
If you are a loved one of someone who was wrongfully convicted, your voice matters here too. 🤍
�Be part of what we’re building. Take the survey if you are directly impacted or love someone who has. 🔗 Link in bio

03/24/2026

03/23/2026

During two decades behind bars, what kept me going was the unwavering hope of advanced DNA testing to identify the real perpetrator and help prove my innocence.

03/22/2026

We’re keeping it real and raw about why this matters.

Your voice is not just important — it’s necessary. It’s how we push for real change, real policy, and real support.

Join us Monday for a Facebook Live with our Research Team as we break down the National Amplification Campaign and answer any and all questions.

Your voice is what moves this forward. Without it, the story is incomplete.

📍 Facebook Live
🔗 Link in bio