Collaborations
We are grateful to partner with a variety of organizations in our fight to free the innocent and prevent future injustice.
Since 2016, Innocence Network has worked in partnership with the National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) to develop relationships with NBA Head Coaches, Assistant Coaches, and players to raise public awareness about wrongful convictions and advance legal and policy programs that free the innocent and prevent future injustice.
NBA coaches have recorded public service announcements for Wrongful Conviction Day; they have participated in Innocence Network Conferences; and they have invited staff members and former clients of Innocence Network organizations to attend games, observe practices, and meet their teams.
The relationship with the NBCA and their partners at the NBA provides the Innocence Network with a unique opportunity to advance the overarching objective of raising widespread public awareness about wrongful convictions. Interest in innocence work and recognition of the need for criminal justice reform has never been greater. We are honored by the opportunity to continue to strengthen this relationship and to develop our engagements into robust programming.
The Innocence Network works closely with the Community Program at The Moth, a nonprofit that provides the space, tools, and expertise for people to practice the art and craft of storytelling. Over the last ten years, The Moth has helped hundreds of freed and exonerated people and their family members craft and share their stories.
Each year at the Innocence Network Conference, The Moth works with a cohort of staff members, freed/exonerated people, and their families over the course of three workshop sessions to identify and craft a compelling story to share with their peers. On the second day of the conference, workshop participants perform their stories for an audience of nearly 1,000 people. For many, it is the highlight of the conference.
We understand that storytelling is a powerful part of healing, advocacy, and transformation. We value our partnership with The Moth Community Program and look forward to many more years of partnership and collaboration.
COLLABORATIONS
Interest in innocence work and recognition of the need for criminal legal reform has never been greater. The Innocence Network is interested in collaborating with organizations and corporations who want to help us advance our overarching objective of raising widespread public awareness about wrongful convictions and supporting people after they are freed and/or exonerated. These collaborations should advance our vision and values and inure tangible benefits to Network member organizations and/or exonerated and freed people in our community.
HeinOnline, a company that maintains databases of legal and government documents, provides access to their Academic Core Collection legal legal research package to every member of the Innocence Network free of charge.
Relativity, a legal software company, partners with organizations in the Network to provide free access to their e-discovery tool RelativityOne through their Justice for Change program. Justice for Change leverages the capabilities of Relativity to positively impact racial and social justice causes.
GLOBAL NETWORKS
The majority of the Innocence Network’s members are based in the United States and are mainly focused on domestic criminal justice reform, but there are also innocence networks in other parts of the world made up of locally-based organizations. These global networks are dedicated to offering assistance to government offices or agencies, defense attorney organizations, law schools, and private attorneys who seek to create and operate programs that address wrongful convictions. Inocente includes 14 active members in Latin America and the European Innocence Network includes 7 members from across the European Continent. There is also a burgeoning network in Asia. The U.S.-based Innocence Network works in collaboration with these networks through our International Committee.
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