Thank You and Farewell

For more than 20 years, the NCRJ has been instrumental in supporting, freeing, and winning exoneration for people falsely convicted of crimes against children. And now, the board of directors has decided to …

Queer in Fear: The Role of Homophobia and Transphobia in Wrongful Convictions

This paper will explore how the criminal justice system’s ingrained prejudice against LGBTQ2S+ people can lead to wrongful convictions. Primarily, this paper will focus on the negative stereotypes of and myths surrounding queer people, rooted in homophobia and transphobia, that …

Corruption Drove the Fr. Gordon MacRae Case

“For the last 29 years, Father Gordon MacRae has been denied justice, relegated to Concord Men’s Prison in New Hampshire. Despite an ex-FBI agent’s 3-year investigation, a Pulitzer prize-winning Wall Street Journalist’s multi-part exposé, even a current investigation into the …

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A New Documentary About the Gordon MacRae Case

The National Center for Reason and Justice has been sponsoring the case of Father Gordon MacRae for many years. Gordon recently informed me of this new 43 minute documentary about his case.

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Wrongfully convicted Massachusetts man gets $13 million settlement

“Thirty-five years, more than half of my life, I spent behind the wall of a Massachusetts state prison,” Rosario read from a written statement at the news conference outside Boston’s federal courthouse. “Today this chapter is …

25 years after ‘shaken baby’ conviction, Baltimore County man once again tries to prove his innocence

“The criminal justice system’s demand for proof beyond a reasonable doubt has led to the development of entire scientific fields – some now facing serious questions about their accuracy — aimed at definitively proving a …

Suffolk judge overturns 1992 murder conviction, clearing Barry Kamara’s name at last

“Since 2019, judges have thrown out murder and rape convictions against more than a dozen Boston men, almost all of whom are Black and had been sentenced to life in prison.

Barry Kamara has fought for …

Does mandatory reporting of child abuse help or hurt? A Colorado task force is taking a second look.

“The way our mandatory reporting system exists right now — my opinion is that it does more harm than it does good,” Jerry Milner told the state’s Mandatory Reporting Task Force last …

Does the Sex Offender Registry do More Harm than Good?

A debate between NCRJ Director Dr, Emily Horowitz and Montclair State University Professor Cary Fetterman.

Listen to the debate and cast your vote.…