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10/15/2026

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10/02/2026

Today is Wrongful Conviction Day! Join us all day to learn more about wrongful convictions and how you can get involved!
Awareness. Reform. Impact.

10/02/2026

People exonerated in 2025 spent an average of 13.8 years wrongfully incarcerated. That’s because wrongful convictions are incredibly difficult to prove and overturn, requiring significant resources like costly DNA testing, expert consultants, extensive investigation, and more.
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10/02/2026

Wrongful Conviction Day is on October 2!
Stay tuned to our socials in the days ahead as we raise awareness about wrongful convictions, honor those who have been impacted, and advocate for a more just legal system.
Awareness. Reform. Impact.

09/30/2026

Thank you Mayor Joseph Hogsett for proclaiming October 2, 2026 as Wrongful Conviction Day! Indiana Innocence Project Board Members, Valena Beety and Marla Sandys joined INIP Director, Kristine Bunch to celebrate.

09/29/2026

09/17/2026

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Thank you Sandra Chapman for the invitation.

09/03/2026

Congratulations Iris Seabolt and Notre Dame Exoneration Project.

Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) client Iris Seabolt has been fully exonerated more than two decades after she was wrongfully convicted of felony murder in Elkhart, Indiana.

Seabolt's exoneration marks the EJC's fifth exoneration, after the exonerations of Reginald "Reggie" Dillard in February 2026, Kara Beaty in April 2025, Anthony Bedolla in August 2024, and Andy Royer in July 2021.

Read more: https://law.nd.edu/news-events/news/notre-dame-exoneration-justice-clinic-client-iris-seabolt-exonerated/

08/31/2026

We’re always proud to celebrate the people who bring their experience, knowledge, and passion to the Indiana Innocence Project—and today, we’re celebrating Board Member Valena Elizabeth Beety and the release of her powerful new book, Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Q***r Identity.

In Pink Crime, Beety examines what happens when the justice system doesn’t simply fail women—but begins criminalizing motherhood, pregnancy, identity, and circumstances that were never crimes to begin with. It is a conversation about justice, wrongful convictions, and the people who can become especially vulnerable when assumptions take the place of evidence.

Our own Kristine Bunch describes it as “A book that focuses on the vulnerabilities of women caught in the justice system.”

That makes this more than a book we’re excited to share. It is part of the larger conversation at the heart of innocence work: Who gets believed? Who gets protected? And what happens when the system gets it wrong?

Pink Crime is available now.
https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Crime-Criminalization-Motherhood-Pregnancy/dp/1620979713