In November, Wisconsin Innocence Project co-founder Keith Findley (left) spoke about wrongful convictions at an annual banquet in Menasha, Wisconsin organized by the advocacy organization ESTHER.

A bipartisan bill moving through the Wisconsin Legislature would significantly increase compensation for people wrongfully ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wrongly convicted people in Wisconsin can wait months to have their cases reviewed and receive compensation that does not meet ...

My colleagues and I at the Wisconsin Innocence Project work every day with people whose lives have been irreparably harmed by ...

MADISON - The discovery of a woman's remains at a salvage yard owned by the family of Steven Avery is a great shock, but it doesn't change the mission of the group, said a co-director of the Wisconsin ...

Adams and two others were convicted in Jefferson County in the 1998 sexual assault of a UW-Whitewater student. The Innocence Project presented a witness who saw the purported victim chatting with the ...

This is the third installment in “Exploring Integrity: Reviewing Wrongful Conviction Remedies,” a series examining the impact of conviction integrity units on the American judicial system’s rate of ...

The UW-Madison law professor who helped free Steven Avery after a wrongful conviction in the 1980s says "Making a Murderer," the popular Netflix documentary about his 2007 homicide trial, illustrates ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man serving a life sentence for homicide is getting a new trial after the Wisconsin Innocence Project accused the man's attorney of mounting a bungled defense.

In November, Wisconsin Innocence Project co-founder Keith Findley (left) spoke about wrongful convictions at an annual banquet in Menasha, Wisconsin organized by the advocacy organization ESTHER.