KC friends, come have a drink with us! Join the MIP team at Casual Animal on October 13 for a low-key happy hour with the people who make this work possible. Come and go as you please, meet fellow supporters, and help us celebrate what comes next for Midwest Innocence Project.

Tomorrow night: come experience what reentry actually feels like. At Life After Freedom: Reentry Simulation, you’ll navigate the urgent decisions facing someone returning home after incarceration: housing, work, ID, health care, transportation, and family.

A new Kansas City Star opinion calls on Wyandotte County’s Conviction Integrity Unit to meaningfully review cases involving evidence of wrongful conviction and official misconduct.

Release from prison is one moment. Reentry is the work that follows. For someone returning after a wrongful conviction, ordinary tasks can become urgent: getting an ID, finding housing, seeing a doctor, learning new technology, and rebuilding relationships.

Freedom is only the beginning. After years or decades in prison, people returning home face immediate decisions about housing, work, identification, health care, transportation, and family. There is no pause button while they figure it out.

Forensic science can be powerful evidence. It is not magic, and it is not always conclusive. During National Forensic Science Week, we are sharing a few things worth knowing about how forensic evidence is collected, tested, interpreted, and challenged.

Freedom is the beginning. What comes next is the work of rebuilding. Join us on International Wrongful Conviction Day for Life After Freedom: Reentry Simulation, an interactive experience that puts you face-to-face with the barriers people can encounter after incarceration.

You helped save MIP. Now you can help strengthen and sustain the fight for freedom. @HuschBlackwell will match every gift, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 as MIP works toward its next goal of raising $175,000.