An organization that freed St. Louisan Christopher Dunn after he was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, along with many other wrongly convicted individuals, could close its doors following last year’s federal grant cutbacks.
For the past 25 years, the Midwest Innocence Project has worked at no cost to free incarcerated individuals who believe they were wrongfully convicted of crimes in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
“Right now we estimate roughly 4% — and that’s a low estimate — of people incarcerated in the United States are wrongfully imprisoned,” said Tahir Atwater, the project’s executive director. “That accounts for about 4,000 people in the five-state region we serve that are currently in prison for a crime they didn’t commit.”…