The Valley News Dispatch has a story about Dan Bolick -- the man, the myth, the artist who is bringing his portraits of exonerated men to The Innocence Institute in March. Check out the story and photos here. …
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Penn State Gallery features a display of innocence
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Stacey Torrance investigation featured in Philadelphia City Paper
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Check out the Innocence Institute's latest investigation, from the July 30th, 2009 edition of Philadelphia City Paper:
Little Kid, Life Sentence
Pennsylvania has more juvenile lifers than any other state in the union. Stacey Torrance knows. He's been in jail since he was 14.
via Philadelphia City Paper …
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Investigative Journalism Inside PA Prisons
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Inside PA Prisons
By Bill Moushey with Robert Rider
In a Pennsylvania prison visitation room crowded with other inmates, veteran Harrisburg reporter Pete Shellem interviewed a mob informer about his undercover work for the FBI, but it took a painfully long time because the wary, whispering inmate feared another convict would make him out as a snitch.
Just weeks after Staff Writer Mike …
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About the series
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Innocence Institute of Point Park University is an investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions while helping student journalists learn investigative reporting. It is a partnership between the department of journalism and mass communication at Point Park and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Over the past six months, graduate and undergraduate journalism …
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Local reaction
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Local law enforcement unaware of reforms
By Bill Moushey and Nathan Crabbe
With reporting by Joe Boomgaard, Jesse Helfrich, Ashley Johnson, Kyla Juswick, Derek Rocco, Caroline Shannon and Jill Wassell.
Waynesburg Police Chief Timothy Hawfield, like many other law enforcement officials in Western Pennsylvania, didn’t know and didn’t care about federal recommendations to prevent witnesses …
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Exonerated prisoners’ stories are depicted in artist’s project
July 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Daniel Bolick never expected to meet his Muse in the darkness he was navigating through. But out of torment came purpose and a clarity about the direction of his artwork that has taken him beyond anything he could have imagined.
The resultant series of paintings and drawings form his solo exhibition, "Resurrected," at the …
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Recording interrogation can avert controversy
August 31, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Thursday, August 31, 2006
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It is no surprise that most juries believe confessions, despite evidence that savvy detectives can make vulnerable suspects admit almost anything with the proper mix of threats, promises of leniency and other techniques.
But when criminal defendants recant or say they never confessed at all, the result usually is a …
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Bill Moushey to launch new INNOCENCE PROJECT
November 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: http://november.org/razorwire/rzold/25/page20.html
Award-winning journalist Bill Moushey (Author of the WIN AT ALL COSTS series) wrote the Razor Wire to say he is accepting a full-time professor's job at a small college in Pittsburgh to teach journalism and establish an INNOCENCE PROJECT to be named the Innocence Institute of Western Pennsylvania. He believes it will be the first …
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Don Ray Adams Short? Tall? Dark? Light?
May 10, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Don Ray Adams got a life sentence in a 1990 double homicide despite a list of six eyewitnesses who didn't initially place him at the scene.
Police instead relied on a convicted felon and drug abuser with emotional problems who emerged seven months after the murder to implicate Adams -- even though he didn't match the initial description of the killer.
After two men …
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