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Lawyer of the Year awarded to MTIP’s Toby Cook, Larry Mansch, 5/15/20

New director seeks to balance Innocence Project’s dual mission, The Missoulian, 3/1/20

Missoula man exonerated in 2008 death of infant son, The Missoulian, 1/30/20

Montana Innocence Project names new head, board members, The Missoulian, 1/3/20

Montana convicts and incarcerates innocent people. It must stop., The Missoulian, 10/02/19

After state denies $97 million claim, man wrongly imprisoned 18 years plans to sue, Helena Independent Record, 9/30/19

Exonerees, others urge Montana to compensate wrongly convicted, Associated Press, 9/10/19

Montana has a responsibility to compensate wrongly convicted people, like my son, Helena Independent Record, 9/8/19

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On Thursday, the Death Penalty Information Center added 11 previously unidentified cases to their list of people who have been sentenced to death and later found innocent, bringing the number of death row exonerations in the United States up to 185 since 1973. Among them is a man from Billings, Montana, named Gary Radi who was sentenced to death for the 1975 abduction and murder of a Safeway clerk and later found not guilty in a new trial. Radi is the first death row exoneration in Montana recognized by DPIC. Go to mtinnocenceproject.org/death-penalty-information-center-adds-montanan-to-death-row-exonerees-list/ to read more!

Go to mtinnocenceproject.org/5-innocent-people-who-were-executed-or-exonerated-on-death-row/ to read about just some of the stories behind death row exonerations and the execution of innocent people.

We're hiring an administrative assistant to join our Missoula office! To view the listing, go to: mtinnocenceproject.org/administrative-assistant-job-listing

Our Executive Director, Amy Sings In The Timber, is on the cover of the most recent edition of The Montana Kaiman discussing her impressive legal career and how it led her to MTIP! Read the story here: http://www.montanakaimin.com/features/fighting-for-a-second-chance/article_40581152-65bb-11eb-9017-0f932ee22a88.html

For Black History Month, we will be telling stories about the unique experience of being Black and wrongfully convicted. Stay tuned every Tuesday for a new post.

The Montana Coalition for Public Safety, which MTIP is apart of, works to help lawmakers build a just, fair, and accurate legal system that makes Montana safer for everyone. This post details the coalition's 2021 legislative session priorities which include the creation of certificates of rehabilitation for those re-entering society after DOJ supervision, pre-trial surveillance reform, and improving data and transparency in Montana's criminal legal system.

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