I can't imagine a more rewarding experience than working for The Innocence Project. They change lives.

Shame on you America 🤔taking 34 years of a man’s life and not even having the decency to compensate him for all he has been through 😢

The folks at the Innocence Project are absolute heroes. I cannot imagine being let down by your peers, your neighbors, by your own country as a whole. I’m sure we all think “since I didn't do the crime surely there's no way they will-no way they CAN- convict me of it, right?” Well, folks you would be dead wrong! These people are all proof of that. The breech of trust, the feeling of defeat and hopelessness one must feel when in that situation… I seriously cannot imagine. Being in jail or prison is one of the absolute WORST things that can happen to a person. I seriously don't think people understand the toll that it takes on a person. It changes something in you. It does something to your soul, it does damage that cannot be reversed. It's truly a horrific, horrific experience. I don't think people understand; nor should they. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I've been to jail and it still affects me every single day-and I wasn't even in there for long! Jail should ONLY be reserved for the absolute worst of humanity. It shouldn't be for people we are mad at, it should be for people we are deathly afraid of. Not people who drive on a suspended license, or people who owe money for child support. It also shouldn't be so easy to lock someone up and throw away the key. Barry could be your brother, your father, your son. Barry could be YOU. This could happen to YOU. Let's just think about this for a second, yes Barry is out now. However, he lost a huge chunk of his life that he will never get back. He lost out on years and years and years of working a job and being able to save for retirement, he has no work history. No marketable skills. Important time where one pays money into social security and gains valuable work experience. He lost out on being able to have children, have grandkids, have a wife or a husband. He wasn't able to buy a home during a time where a person working full-time is all it took to be able to afford one. Something needs to give. This should NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. An innocent person should not have to spend their precious years in a cage.

I just love Alan’s brother and his loyal to the end friends. Those are rare and should be treasured

Barry Gibbs what an absolutely amazing man. The strength he had to keep going & make sure that he was heard. Good for you Barry, I know that 9 million will not give you your time back but I hope it's helping to make your life now easy, peaceful, happy & fun.... CONGRATULATIONS you deserve the appreciation this film shows you..... I agree I'm glad this miracle happened to Barry too!

The number of things that can go wrong in life without the person doing anything to cause it, makes me want to stay home and never venture out.

‘It can happen to anybody.’ So true.

Innocence Project exoneree Barry Gibbs, sadly died on Friday, March 23, 2018. R.I.P. Barry 🌞

Life is so beautiful, and it's so heartwarming to know there's such amazing people in the world ❤️

This is an amazing group. I do believe there are too many innocent people in prison

EVERY state should be forced to provide financial compensation to the wrongfully convicted!!! I think our founding fathers would agree with me!!

Respect to every person who work this job!! May the Gods bless you 🙏

💔 It's even more sad that he served his country & this was there way of showing appreciation!!

"Being innocent is not enough" = Travesty of justice! God Bless The Innocence Project and God Bless these men who suffered incomprehensible atrocities at the hands of our "justice" system! Billions wouldn't be enough to compensate for what they have suffered. RIP Barry....I absolutely believe you are in a much better place 💯

The fact that George had to plead to a crime he didn’t commit not only leaves a conviction on his record but also means the real killer will likely get away with it and the victims family will never see justice after 30 years of injustice. So sad… 💔

Working for the Innocence Network must be the most rewarding job in the world.

These people and stories are so inspiring...the best kind of "true crime" show, revealing people one can ADMIRE!

My heart goes to the project 🙏 Bless all of you

to be believed by just one person when no one else wants to listen, oh the joy

Glad I had tissues nearby. I feel so greatful for the Innocence Network/Project. I've been watching them for years and love they continue to get innocent people released from prison.

I hadn’t ever ever seen a documentary as wonderful as this absolutely amazing you go ❤️❤️❤️

no matter how you feel about legit criminals, this situation should be enough to make anyone conclude that we should not use the death penalty. we still fail to be sure we are sentencing the guilty party.

Well done to the innocence project, what wonderful people!

God Bless the innocence project and all who work for it❤

God bless the people that work on the innocence project. Thank you for stepping up🫶

What a fantastic story❣️ Praise the Lord for the innocents project‼️

Omgoodness what brave men , these stories were so sad , but these men are just amazing! I hope they all live a beautiful rest of their lives ❤😊 thank you for sharing!

It is so disgusting to me that they were able to hold Lewis Fogle in prison for 34yrs and not have to compensate him a single penny. They really need to go in and change that.

Lewis Fogel I am in tears for these INNOCENT men... IDK know how they find the will to keep going- 30 years! Their children are men/women, partners move on, people give up on you yet you can't give up on yourself. His artwork is so beautiful to still be able to see the outside in your mind to be able to paint these pictures so lifelike is definitely talent. CONGRATULATIONS I hope everyday is just as good as the first day you walked out and took that first free breath.

24:43 I've seen cases where nobody cared about freeing an innocent man, especially prosecutors and cops. They have absolute proof that someone they helped convict is innocent yet they _still_ deny it and fight to keep them in prison.

Unfortunately this happens at All levels...yes we know that theres A Drastic Number of people being put in the system and don't get out!Why should we have to prove our Innocence from behind bars?Once you've been placed there they (police, attorney generals,judges, security guards etc....)say,"Everyone in prison says they're innocent ha...fall in line!"Just a terrible injustice on innocent human beings 😢GOD HELP US ALL🙏

It must be a heavy burden working for the Innocence Project…straight up earth angels.

the Innocence Project is such a blessing ...❤❤

That bird landing on Jim Fogles hand is something else

After seeing how the lives on earth these gentlemen were given,I pray they have most awesome eternal lives.

I would LOVE to be a part of this team. I am so passionate on this subject

I love the innocence project. I believe in their noble undertaking. At the risk of putting up ‘spam’ can I point out that Amazon Smile will make small donations to the charity of your choice when you make a purchase. The innocence project is my selected charity. Thanks for the great video.

It's infuriating what they did to George Toca. They did the same thing to the West Memphis 3. They had to sign an Alford Plea which robbed them of everything they were entitled to.

Love these stories! Clearly, our justice system is terrifying. Nobody can feel confident they won't be on death row one day. No one is safe from the threat of being wrongfully accused and convicted of a crime they didn't commit.

imagine how many innocent men & women were put to death over the years.... can you imagine- like really put yourself there. Being strapped down, read your last rights, and know that in a few moments you will be taking your last breath because they are killing you for something you did not do!!? That's the ultimate human betrayal one person could put upon another person... So so sad

The people working in the Innocence project don't work for free, they have heart and soul fulfillment that is so much more worthy than money❤️

Just when I think the world is so heartless, I watch this and it changed my mind

I hope that Pennsylvania has changed its laws on compensating wrongly convicted people.

Makes you wonder just how many innocent people have been wrongly accused and jailed, they just love to close a case, as for no compensation that is so very wrong

This is freak me out, Lots of innocent men’s and woman’s in jail for crime that they not commit. The system filed them and it’s so sad, but at the end it’s happy ending. Vanessa, her team and her family is my No1❤ they have a big heart.❤ bless you and god always protect you in any way.❤

The blood sweat & tears of the Innocent Network Attorneys deserve to be bottled... such AMAZING PEOPLE!

Tony Newton gave all to his sibling..What a person he is. Bobby Thomas is what I called TRUE BLUE friend.

Does anyone realize how many wrongful convictions begin from a wide conspiracy? It’s scary. The false confession’s break my heart. I’ve seen people show detectives videos of how they obtained a false confession. And, they adamantly denied it. It’s evil at the highest levels.

God bless The innocence project

I am blown away by Barry's courage and determination to survive, seek justice and then fight for a comfortable life free from the demons that were imposed on him. The Innocence Project is such a worthwhile organization. Finally, those sisters are as kind as they are talented. May their lives be filled with the reaped rewards of their kindness.

All they innocent people and to think what they have went through is heart breaking .happy to see how they have been freed and are doing well .

More videos like this please

It is better to have a guilty person outside than having an innocent person in prison. I can't even imagine that horror and pain that these people went through and my heart is breaking to hear these stories. Those years can never be given back to those people and their families.

It is horrifying to me that are justice system is so corrupt.

I love how compassionate the attorneys are at the innocence project! ❤️

Great, great respect to the officers of the Innocence Project ..❤

Saved the best for last... George Toca

God bless you Barry! God bless The Innocence Network!

appreciation to the INNOCENCE PROJECT/COMMITTEE. For allllllllll those who are no longer behind bars INNOCENTLY congrats to u peace n the ability to cope in this world. Imagine having to sign a decree with some state that u are guilty when u are INNOCENT simply bcuz of wicked laws where the state does not want to COMPENSATE THE VICTIM.. How evil is that? Can that ever be regarded as freedom? This is deplorable! May victory come quickly for the many other INNOCENT ones whose cases have NOT been heard.

The justice system has failed me too!!! Thankfully not on this scale, but this doesn’t surprise me. My divorce attorney forged a DocuSign document on my behalf WITHOUT my consent & lost custody of my son, had to sell my house & the proceeds from that sale… I was court ordered to pay my cheating ex wife’s attorney fees. I definitely see how people snap.

This men lost half of their lives in prisons. Injustice . Thank you from me

Every wrongfully convicted person should reap financial benefits. Unfortunately not all states have that to offer and are forced to sue under other terms.

The last case is extra hard, because he had to plea guilty to be released what a cruel system yeah it freed him, but he will always have the guilty plea hanging over his head .😏

The story about Alan Newton is really heartbreaking. Alan, his family and the Innocence Project are heros.

The Innocence Project is an extremely Important Project.

Barry Scheck seems to be trying to atone for his role in the oj simpson debacle. Keep atoning Barry, this current effort for truly innocent people is your life's good works.

The Innocence Project team are doing a fantastic job. They need to recruit more attorneys/lawyers to speed up and solve all eligible backlog requests (250 new requests per month) who are in desperate need of justice and exoneration. Time is of the essence for innocent people who have been wrongfully convicted and locked up for decades.

Thank God for The innocents projects

Yes they gave him a decent compensation but holy crap I would rather not have the money and have 20 years of my life back than live in jail

It is fantastic to know that a gentleman such as Barry was freed by these wonderful people, when they get it right. Having said that, I wish they would discern between this man and a true monster like Scott Peterson.

When people ask why do innocent people run this is why. I’m not going to be a test subject for change so I rather be on the run to prove my innocence. Innocent until proven guilty? More like guilty until proven innocent.

George Toca🌹 Shame on the corrupt toxic injust system.

I have seen so much corruption in law enforcement, prosecutors and judges I have absolutely no faith whatsoever in the justice system. Prosecutors are suppose to make sure they are not prosecuting any case where there is the possibility that the person is innocent but most of them are working towards a goal of 100% conviction rate of the highest number of cases. They don't actually care if you are innocent. They will do anything to get you to take a plea on a case you did not have anything to do with. Judges are suppose to be the gate keeper. To oversea what law enforcement has done and what the prosecutor is proceeding with. But they are sitting there waiting for the case to end and rubber stamp it. From warrants that never should have been signed off to locking up innocent people. No such thing as justice in The USA.

This is so heartbreaking… & these lawyers helping are truly angels on earth .. the mental toll on the inmates incarcerated unjustly & the lawyers I can’t imagine ❤

It really angers me that these people cannot receive any compensation. They don't have to receive millions, but should receive enough to start over. To pay for transportation and a place to live at the very least. Jim is fortunate to have a family and a marketable skill, one that doesn't require physical labor, but there are many who don't. It's very sad.

You guys are the best

Thank you

These stories are so messed up. My emotions are going haywire. So unfortunate. 😢 Have to look at the bright side❤🎉 I suppose? Better late than never??

All of these stories are so sad, but Alan’s story had me crying so hard! It’s ridiculous that he still hasn’t gotten his money for what they did to him! 💔

Mil gracias por compartir

Great stories

After seeing the Michael Morton story.. the man in Texas, who went to work one morning, and being arrested for the brutal murder of his wife, when he got off.. it is impossible to not realize this can happen to anyone. A prosecutor, a sheriff… who absolutely have no regard for the truth, the next thing he knows, he is serving a life without parole sentence….. and miraculously 25 years later, these beautiful people help him get his freedom.. I can never watch a story like Barry’s…. Without a tear in my eye… it is so wrong.. and it happens way more than people realize. The innocence project is doing God’s work, you can’t help but to love them 💙

Barry Good 👍🏻 on you sir .God Bless you your a sweet heart ❤ . Pete Australia 🇦🇺

Thank YOU !!!!!! Innocence Project for your Service. I m not rich, but is there any contribution, people like me could make to be of some assistance....

So Beautiful is your new family. ... My God and so Beautiful are you Barry ! What a great story.

God Bless this man. ❤

What an extraordinary man… God really touched you

I believe in our state eye witness testimony is not enough with corroborating evidence. Glad we have better tools. Now we need honest and truly thorough law enforcement. No tunnel vision. No corruption or courts and prosecutor who rely on revenue or conviction stats to get reelected. Equal funds to defense for lawyer and expert testimony.

To the people who state "no one cares about the wrongly convicted" thats not true. But the majority of people who believe people are innocent are common people with no means of helping. We join groups, threads and try to get the word out. If I knew the secret to making a post go viral I'd do it for everyone but that still doesnt get you out. I can't even imagine 1 day behind bars let alone decades as an innocent person. My hopes and prayers are all I can offer. We aren't silent but everyday people just like all of you.

Watching this I realize that there were people obsessed with a hunch and so innocent people were incarcerated . Sad . But let’s forget bad things and let’s focused on positive life things

I always find it so hard to believe that all these "guilty" criminals admit their crimes to their cell mate, etc. Please.

Thank goodness they got him out.... I don't know how the world would have went on without the BeeGee's🤣 But in all seriousness these ppl are Angels for what they do👏❣️

Do they ever find the real criminal??

beautiful man

I would REALLY like to become a part of The Innocence Program. To fight for people. I am currently enrolled in college, in a paralegal program. After I graduate from that, I want to keep going, and take Criminal Justice.

Sadly I to am falsely convinced of a crime that never happened. My case is so obviously a miscarriage of justice it's just stupid. Even though I'm out the pain doesn't just go away. Last year I tried to commit suicide over this and I still have the same thoughts. I could use the help of these attorneys to get this case removed from me so I can go to work and find a place to live. I currently live under a bridge (homeless)

Wonderful story. Why wasn't he compensated?

Just wanted to thank the innocent project lawyers that go out of the way and work so many long hours to free the innocent men/woman that have lost so many years sitting in prison thank God for them Bec if it wasn't for them so many would have died in prison innocent men/woman God bless you all! Thank you!

So glad Barry got compensated finally! He got cured of prostate & colon cancer, wow! Glad you could enjoy senior years Barry! Is he still doing good? 2025 will be 20 yrs released! 🙏❤️. Alan, just so proud of him, he got a scholarship & graduated, very smart man, to do studies in prison was such a good thing to do. Hope he gets his compensation, wish him & his family, brothers lots of happiness, health & love & success in life. ❤. George’s story got to me pretty badly, after all those years & detectives knew he was innocent when the lawyers showed them their case I think is why they offered that DISGUSTING plea offer they knew then they don’t lose face but George loses 40 yrs & he is a convicted felon, so wrong. Is why I’m so glad George was smart & ambitious & is doing so well. Keep doing all that makes you happy George, wish him much success & happiness and good health & a wonderful love! 🤗❤️🙏

Those judges murdered their souls more than their bodies. Sad