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@CenturionFree

Seeking freedom for the innocent in prison since 1980. We were the first organization to work on behalf of the wrongfully convicted. #Freedom #Ididntdoit

 Greater NY
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Joined July 2013
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Dwayne LeBlanc spent 28 years in a Louisiana prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Today he finally got his freedom. It was an honor joining Dwayne, his family and @CenturionFree on the journey to correct this injustice and free an innocent man.
Image from Alan Maimon (@alanmaimon)
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As much as some people don’t want to hear it, prison inmates are a vulnerable population and deserve protections from pandemics and natural disasters. Glad Orleans Parish is taking steps to prevent what happened during Katrina. #Hurricane_Ida google.com/amp/www.kadn.com/…
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What is life like after decades of wrongful imprisonment? For these Georgia exonerees: bittersweet and hard to survive. Will Georgia’s legislature help? ajc.com/lifestyles/lost-basi…
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Opening of the exhibit "I am Innocent: Photographs and Stories" by @CenturionFree photographer Diane Bladecki opens tomorrow on our 2nd floor as part of the #princetonmigrations project. Thanks to @ArtsPrinceton for the expert hanging and curation. iaminnocentphotosandstories.…
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How many hundreds of thousands of dollars have had to be contributed by those who care about justice... Where public officers fail in their duties, private donors have to step forward. At least, sometimes, the effort is worth it. teapawt.net/CenturionFree/status/9…
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Centurion client Michael Shannon has been exonerated in New Orleans. "Cannizzaro’s concession of Shannon’s likely innocence appears to be the most full-throated admission ever by the district attorney that his office got it wrong in a murder case." theadvocate.com/new_orleans/…

Orleans DA says man convicted of 2004 murder was likely innocent

Acknowledging that a man his office sent to prison for life likely was innocent, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro has dropped the case against Michael Shannon, whose conviction in

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Centurion retweeted
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The cost of one phone call to a loved one in prison costs 31 times more than the average phone call -- @deray
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Speaker Kate Germond fighting for those wrongly convicted. Get tickets now goo.gl/brxbFW @CenturionMnstry #Princeton #TEDx #TED – at Princeton, NJ
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"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love..."
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Please RT 1 million times: it is not "left-wing"--"leftist"--to believe in equality of races, genders, citizens, ethnicities. it is American
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The "confession" becomes a story crafted by investigators, rather than the suspect. #wrongfulconviction ow.ly/MxP630dRDON
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Thanks for standing, speaking & marching for our values @womensmarch. Important as ever. I truly believe we're always Stronger Together.
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The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us that in an open society we must always strive for racial equality. trib.al/OMeq9gF
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." We honor MLK +support justice warriors @innocence @exonerationlist @QuattroneCenter
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edbaker@eddiext13 Jan 2017
Latest exoneration brings renewed push for Pa. law to compensate wrongfully convicted newsworks.org/index.php/loca… – at Philadelphia, PA
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Dick Blanchard@A4WC9 Oct 2016
Donald Trump’s doubling down on the Central Park Five reflects a bigger problem #WrongfullyConvicted washingtonpost.com/news/the-…
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Bryan Stevenson,founder of @eji_org and attorney to death-row exoneree, Ray Hinton,says society is failing exonerees.cbsn.ws/1ne72kB
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Incredible speech by an incredible woman. Couldn't be more proud & our country has been blessed to have her as FLOTUS. I love you, Michelle.
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Please help death row exoneree John Thompson's org. get back on their feet after a robbery! owl.li/f6pC302frRB
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"What got me through? I just wanted to see my mamma one more time." @innocence exoneree talking about prison #XONR8
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"The history of racial inequality hangs over this nation like a toxic smog." -Bryan Stevenson philanthropy.com/article/Law… @Philanthropy
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