Midwest Innocence Project Inc

The Midwest Innocence Project (MIP) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the investigation, litigation, and exoneration of wrongfully convicted men and women in our five-state region. Recent studies conservatively estimate that between 2% and 5% of all inmates in America are innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted, with some estimates reaching up to 7%. This means that somewhere between 2,000 and 7,000 moms, dads, sons, and daughters in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Arkansas are locked behind bars this very moment for crimes they did not commit.

MIP was founded a decade ago through the UMKC School of Law and is part of the national Innocence Network. In addition to our university partners at UMKC School of Law, the University of Kansas School of Law, and the University of Missouri School of Law, we also work in conjunction with the Nebraska Innocence Project, Innocence Project of Iowa, and Iowa Public Defender’s Wrongful Conviction Division. Read more about our partners here. We are based in Kansas City, Missouri.