This research paper is going to discusses the innocence’s project. The innocence’s project is the work to free wrongfully convicted people and also help prevent people from being wrongfully convicted. Technology has changed a lot when since the program started and since then the new technology has help them prove people innocence. I will be taking a deeper look into how change in technology has affected the innocence’s project. Technology has both helped and harmed the people within the program because of how advanced technology has become.

Selby, Daniele. “DNA and Wrongful Conviction: Five Facts You Should Know.” Innocence Project, 2 May 2023 https://innocenceproject.org/news/dna-and-wrongful-conviction-five-facts-you-should-know/#:~:text=The%20emergence%20of%20DNA%20technology,exonerate%20hundreds%20of%20innocent%20people.

Quote: The emergence of DNA technology, which has the ability to provide irrefutable proof of wrongful convictions, inspired Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld to co-found the Innocence Project in 1992. Since then, the organization has used DNA technology and litigation to help free and exonerate hundreds of innocent people.

Usage: This article will help me better under what new technology was made to help identity DNA and use that to help free people. Within this article I found many recourse and quote that can help me get a better understanding of the technology.

“DNA’s Revolutionary Role in Freeing the Innocent.” Innocence Project, 30 May 2023, innocenceproject.org/news/dnas-revolutionary-role-in-freeing-the-innocent/.

Quote: DNA testing may also develop a profile that matches to an alternate suspect or to someone in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the national DNA database of offenders, missing persons and forensic materials collected from crime scenes.

Usage: This article help me get a better understanding of DNA and what it really is and how they are using it. It talks about how all DNA is different and how there are DNA fingerprints and these are now used around the world in most or if not all criminal cases because of how good these test are proven to work.

“Harmful Surveillance and Investigative Technologies.” Innocence Project, 1 May 2023, innocenceproject.org/harmful-surveillance-and-investigative-technologies/

Quote: Surveillance technologies that use algorithmic tools, such as facial recognition technology, frequently run the risk of misinterpreting personal information or using inaccurate information from databases that misleads investigations.

Usage: This article helps me understand how technology has changed and how with this new advanced technology has changed the world. There are cameras everywhere and with surveillance system and facedly recension helps with these case and help prove people wrong

“Misapplication of Forensic Science.” Innocence Project, 5 June 2023, innocenceproject.org/misapplication-of-forensic-science

Quote: To strengthen forensic science, we educate judges, attorneys, forensic experts, and other system actors on the limitations of certain forensic methods, and urge them to examine scientific evidence for accuracy and reliability.

Usage: This article talks about how most of these people that were convicted was because of misused forensic science. This program has only help strength the forensic science and made it better. This article as help with the different ways they gather and the test they put the evidence though.

“Explore the Numbers: Innocence Project’s Impact.” Innocence Project, 5 July 2023, innocenceproject.org/exonerations-data/.

Quote: DNA testing and analysis has become vital to exonerating innocent people and driving criminal justice reform. Decades of data on DNA-related and non-DNA exonerations expose systemic vulnerabilities.

Usage: This article shows me the innocence projects numbers and there rating how many people they freed and how many people were on death row and more. This article will help me see how well this program was doing before technology was introduce and what it did for them and how big of an impact it had on the innocence project.