2025 Stories 2025 Criminal Legal System Data Wrapped The letters aren’t slowing down. Neither can we. Honoring Joe & Bernie Montana’s Prison Population Is Rising Faster Than Almost Anywhere in the Country Perspectives on Dignity and Humanity Inside Montana State Prison’s Water Crisis New data highlights two urgent truths Irreversible: The Legal, Moral, and Human Costs of the Death Penalty Montana Innocence Project Welcomes New Intake & Pro Bono Coordinator Charlie McWeeny Shaping Justice: Ali Lacayo on Culture, Resilience, and Reform Honoring Resilience: 5 Stories of Wrongful Conviction for Hispanic Heritage Month Katie Garding’s Backpacking Adventure: Finding Presence in Nature Podcast: Hear from MTIP Legal Director on How to Apply for our Legal Services Podcast: Exploring the History, Controversies, and Misconceptions Surrounding the Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome with Katherine Judson (Part 2) Podcast: Exploring the History, Controversies, and Misconceptions Surrounding the Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome with Katherine Judson (Part 1) Podcast: MTIP Board Member Paul Leisher Explains the Highly Controversial Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome and MTIP Client Aaron Oliphant’s Case (Part 2) Podcast: MTIP Board Member Paul Leisher Explains the Highly Controversial Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome and MTIP Client Aaron Oliphant’s Case (Part 1) Celebrating Waverly McIver: Montana Innocence Project’s AmeriCorps Member MTIP Social Services Advocate, Ali Lacayo Attends Statewide Sequential Intercept Model Mapping (SIMM) Summit Meet Brady Minow Smith: Montana Innocence Project’s New Legal Director Podcast: MTIP Executive Director Unpacks 2025 Legislative Session MTIP Volunteers and Interns Committed to Fighting Wrongful Convictions MTIP Staff and Freed Client Attend 2025 Innocence Network Conference How Generative AI is Transforming MTIP’s Fight Against Wrongful Convictions MTIP Client Katie Garding on Navigating State Supervision for the Second Time, and Her Ongoing Fight for Justice after Wrongful Conviction Trump’s Executive Order to “Restore” the Federal Death Penalty Threatens the Innocent and Amplifies Racial Inequities New Beginnings: MTIP Client Bernard Pease Jr. Moves into a Place of His Own After 40 Years of Wrongful Incarceration