May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. Exonerees deal with unique mental health challenges as they adjust to life outside of prison, but there are few services that cater to their needs. To fill that gap, last summer, MAIP established the Venable-Burner Exoneree Support Fund, named after MAIP client Troy Burner and longtime MAIP pro bono partner Venable.

For National Volunteer Month, we are spotlighting longtime MAIP volunteer Dave McCrabb! Dave has been a volunteer since October 2018.

Ransom Watkins was only 17 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. “I knew I was there for something I did not do, and so I knew I would be coming home someday,” Ransom said of his experience in prison. Although conditions in

Last week, MAIP client Anthony Hall was fully exonerated when the Baltimore City State’s Attorney dropped murder charges against him, following a March decision by the Baltimore City Circuit Court to grant Anthony’s Petition for a Writ of Actual Innocence and vacate his 1992 murder conviction. For Anthony, who has

Yesterday, MAIP client Kenneth Bond-El was released from Jessup Correctional Institution after spending almost three decades in prison for a murder he did not commit. 

MAIP is hiring a part-time Client Services Specialist! If you, or someone you know, has a background in social work, and you are interested in working with returning citizens, please apply: Preference is for those located in Baltimore or the DC metro area. DC link: https://ideali.st/sIMpUr Baltimore link: https://ideali.st/xrp4A5

Dante Ricardo Boyd—“Rick” to his family and friends—was a 23-year-old father of four with most of his life still in front of him when he was convicted in DC Superior Court in May 1998 for the gang-related murder of 12-year-old Darryl Hall. Rick’s involvement in gang life was practically nonexistent,

The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (MAIP) is using a sizable grant from Venable to establish an endowment that will help exonerees from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia get back on their feet after their release from prison. The endowment, named the Venable-Burner Exoneree Support Fund, will provide social services, behavioral