Innocence Project Facts

Archie Williams spent 36 years in Angola for a crime he didn't commit - wrongfully convicted in 1983 after a witness misidentified him. A fingerprint database cleared him in 2019, identifying another man who had already died behind bars. A year later, he sang 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' on America's Got Talent. Every judge stood up.

Brian Boles was 17 when police handcuffed him to a chair for two days and fed him a false confession to a crime he didn't commit. He spent 30 years locked up - and used that time to enroll in the Bard Prison Initiative. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology two months before a judge officially cleared his name.