How many people have been exonerated and released from prison?
More than 230 wrongfully convicted and imprisoned men and women have been exonerated and released from U.S. prisons after conclusively proving their innocence. Close to 130 of them were exonerated by DNA evidence, and the numbers of DNA exonerees is growing as more states provide for post-conviction DNA testing. The Innocence Project website provides details on each of their cases. In the cases not involving DNA testing, the evidence used to establish actual innocence includes confessions from the real perpetrators and fingerprint evidence.
