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Historically, the wrongfully convicted have been largely ignored in the United States, but over the past decade the landscape has been slowly shifting. New exonerations regularly flood our news feeds, making the topic difficult to ignore. A week rarely goes by without hearing the news that another victim of wrongful conviction has been set free, […]

Introduction Child trafficking can be traced back to the early 1400s, when the European salve market began in Africa. One of the main reason behind child trafficking is cheap labour. Today, child labour is the vicious image of slavery in the 21st century and its elimination is seen as matter of urgency throughout the world […]

Russ Faria has filed a civil lawsuit against State Farm, accusing the company of giving his deceased wife’s life insurance to the wrong person. State Farm paid out the claim to a woman named Pam Hupp, an alleged friend of Faria’s wife, Betsy. Strangely, Hupp became the beneficiary of Betsy Faria’s life insurance policy just […]

In 1961, a Yale scientist carried out an experiment that quickly achieved notoriety verging on infamy. No one suffered direct harm, but test subjects learned something about themselves they might not have wanted to know. To perform the experiment, Stanley Milgram recruited dozens of volunteers, ordinary people from all walks of life. He told them […]

Brian Peixoto was convicted in 1996 for the murder of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son Christopher Affonso, Jr. Peixoto is currently being housed at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord (MCI Concord), where he is serving a life sentence without parole. Peixoto has always strongly proclaimed his innocence, and he is grateful that he has not […]

Injustice Anywhere, an all-volunteer organization working to bring more attention to wrongful convictions, has launched a new website in support of Brendan Dassey. The site can be found at Freebrendan.org.  The group announced their support for Dassey in January, after reviewing Dassey’s interrogation videos. Injustice Anywhere feels strongly that Dassey was mistreated by his interrogators, and that […]