
With the support of our community of donors, activists, and co-counsel, the Innocence Project worked to free or exonerate 15 clients — a majority of whom were Black or Latinx — and advanced the scientific scrutiny of forensic evidence. We helped fuel a movement around conviction integrity that is compelling prosecutors to acknowledge evidence of innocence and vacate convictions. And we are holding law enforcement accountable: the exoneration of one Innocence Project client led to the disbarment of a Dallas County prosecutor, who repeatedly hid evidence of innocence.
I have my life back, and words can’t do justice to my gratitude and appreciation to everyone at the Innocence Project.
Ron Jacobsen, who was exonerated in August 2021, takes in the views at Awosting Falls in Ulster County, N.Y., on Oct. 2, 2021. (Image: Justin Chan/Innocence Project)

Christopher Tapp
22 years
Felipe Rodriguez
25 years
Gerry Thomas
29 years
Rafael Ruiz
25 years
Paul Hildwin
34 years
Sheila Denton
15 years
Darrill Henry
15 years
Robert DuBoise
35 years
Jaythan Kendrick
25 years
Termaine Hicks
18 years
Rosa Jimenez
17 years
Eddie Lee Howard
26 years
Tyrone Holmes
33 years
Jonathan Smith
20 years
Ron Jacobsen
30 years369
years collectively served among clients released or exonerated between 2019 and 2021
6
clients exonerated or released between 2019 and 2021 whose cases involved a misapplication of science
5
DNA-based exonerations between 2019 and 2021
The only feeling I can compare it to is when you go on an exhausting trip, and when you finally get home, you just feel like, ‘Oh, I’m home. This is where I belong.'
Rosa Jimenez, who was freed in January 2021, in her home on March 4, 2021. (Image: Mary Kang/Innocence Project)