Ohio Innocence Project

Sapp spent 13 years in prison for murder. An investigation by the Ohio Innocence Project uncovered evidence implicating another person instead. A judge dismissed the charges against Sapp in 2024.

The Ohio Innocence Project's Donald Caster will lead the unit tasked with investigating potential wrongful felony convictions in Hamilton County.

On Cincinnati Edition, we discuss the data and explore the challenges.

Dean Gillispie was exonerated after 20 years in prison. He won a lawsuit against police.

Since 1989, more than 3,390 people have been exonerated across the United States — spending a total of more than 29,000 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.

Imagine being stuck in prison for a crime you didn't commit. And as you wait to get out, the pandemic hits. WVXU interviewed two people in that situation…

A Milford man is hoping to clear his name after spending 11 and a half years in prison for a robbery he says he did not commit. Kevin Thornton has been…

The opera Blind Injustice premieres at Cincinnati Music Hall this month. The opera tells the true stories of six individuals who were tried, convicted,…

A Cleveland man who served 15 years in prison for a murder he did not commit was recently exonerated. His case marked the 26th wrongful conviction…

A $15 million gift to the University of Cincinnati's College of Law will allow the expansion of a program designed to free the wrongfully convicted. The…