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Yep. They took this “Success Story” off of their website the absolute minute Avery was arrested. Prior to that, Avery was their Poster Child for a wrongful conviction. (Avery HAD a rap sheet as long as his arm prior to this arrest. WHAT is the criteria they use to free the ‘wrongfully convicted?’ Can’t find THAT on their site, either.)

Funny. They NEVER track who re-offends after they ‘break them out of prison’ for the GOOD of Society. *SMIRK*

Thanks for putting up with my ‘bent nose’ on this subject. :)

Funny. They NEVER track who re-offends after they ‘break them out of prison’ for the GOOD of Society.

This would be a valuable statistic and I hope that the Innocence Project will post this. I think that the goal of this project is ultimately a good thing - freedom for people who've been jailed for crimes they didn't commit.

In the case you mention, I'd be interested in finding out if the law determined that the freed prisoner had, in fact, committed the original crime - I guess in some these cases, the prisoners are going to have criminal tendencies that will lead them to commit other crimes even if they didn't actually commit the original crime, and some are going to have been guilty of the original crime even though the Innocence Project is able to show that the DNA evidence wasn't enough to fairly convict them.