WRONGFUL CONVICTION DAY: OCTOBER 2, 2014.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am advised by AIDWYC (The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted) that participation is creating quite a buzz - and now encompasses participants in eight nations: The USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K, Japan and Ireland. AIDWYC's Win Wahrer tells me that new organizations and individuals are signing on daily. The list to date includes:
USA:
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am advised by AIDWYC (The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted) that participation is creating quite a buzz - and now encompasses participants in eight nations: The USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K, Japan and Ireland. AIDWYC's Win Wahrer tells me that new organizations and individuals are signing on daily. The list to date includes:
USA:
Centurion Ministries
Ohio Innocence Project
New York Innocence Project
Arizona Justice Project
Justice for Illinois Wrongfully Convicted
Free Jamie Snow
Griffith University Innocence Project
North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence
Michigan Innocence Clinic
Northern California Innocence Project
Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation
International Network for Innocent Arson Defendants
BonPasse Exoneration Services
BonPasse Exoneration Services
CANADA:
U. of Ottawa Innocence Project (Innocence Ottawa)
Canadian Families & Corrections Network
Ontario Justice Education Network
Pro Bono Students Canada
Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto
Guelph Humber
Humber College
Mount Royal University
Ontario Poetry Society
Creative Vocalization Studio
Toronto Poet Laureate Prof. George Elliot Clarke
Bill Bissett
Joyce Milgaard
Concrete Wave Magazine
Criminal Lawyers Association (CLA)
The Bridge (Prison Ministry)
The Charles Smith Blog
The Church Council on Justice and Corrections
F.E.A.T. (For Children of Incarcerated parents)
THE NETHERLANDS:
Knoops Innocence Project
AUSTRALIA:
Networked Knowledge;
NEW ZEALAND:
Innocence Project New Zealand
UNITED KINGDOM:
Solicitors International Human Rights Group
JAPAN:
Worldwide Women’s Criminal Justice Network
Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Information Center.
IRELAND:
Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle (exonerees and death row survivors);
By signing on, participants around the world agree to commemorate the day with a program of their own choosing.
Details can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2014/06/wrongful-convictions-day-aidwyc.html
IRELAND:
Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle (exonerees and death row survivors);
By signing on, participants around the world agree to commemorate the day with a program of their own choosing.
Details can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2014/06/wrongful-convictions-day-aidwyc.html
Interested participants may sign up by contacting Win Wahrer at winwahrer@aidwyc.org.
Harold Levy;
Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
