We are driven to free the innocent of Delaware and meaningfully reform the system that wrongfully convicted them. 

Wrongful conviction occurs when a factually innocent person is convicted of a crime they did not commit. It is a symptom of a broken criminal legal system that must be fixed.

Since 1989, more than 3,600 wrongfully convicted people have been exonerated in the United States, including 190 who were sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit. That number continues to grow.

Delaware was one of the last three states in the country to develop an Innocence Project.

According to the Prison Policy Initiative, Delaware’s incarceration rates stand out internationally. The incarceration rates are not limited to the most populous cities, people all over the state are being locked up at high rates. 

Black people in Delaware are incarcerated at a rate 5.4 times higher than White people.

As of 2022, 21.2% of the population of Delaware consists of Black individuals. Yet in the Delaware prison system, 60% of the people who are incarcerated are Black. This includes 65% of people serving life without parole sentences, and 63% of pretrial detainees in Delaware.

In Delaware, the cost of incarcerating older people is incredibly high, and their risk of recidivism is incredibly low, yet 15% of people in Delaware prisons are over the age of 55.