Prison Industrial Complex
Wrongful Conviction Pieces
As a second year student at the University of Denver, I had the opportunity to engage in a course about Wrongful Convictions. Through this Course, I learned about the history of wrongful convictions in the United states prison system. I also read personal accounts of innocent incarcerated men. Learning about the wrongful conviction of Ronald Cotton and Colorado local Timothy Masters, as well as the struggle for innocence endured by Troy Davis and his family have forever impacted me. This course allowed me to reflect on the wrongful convictions we read about, connect the individual occurrences to larger issues in current court standards, and consider how similar wrongful conviction could be stopped in the future.
PDF: Ronald Cotton Case Analysis
PDF: Timothy Masters Case Analysis
The lessons I learned in my Wrongful Conviction course at DU became a call for action in my life. Starting in the Spring of 2018, I became an intern with the Colorado Innocence Center. The Colorado Innocence Center is a Denver based non-profit that provides pro-bono legal support to incarcerated men and women who were indeed wrongfully convicted.
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As an intern I have used my knowledge of the history of this phenomenon, as well as the common errors that lead to wrongful convictions and applied It to the cases I am working on. My internship has allowed me to conduct primary research into the claims we have received, and has challenged me to find holes in the cases as the were previously tried.
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