Innocents in Prison

Truth and Justice Foundation (T&J) assists in lifting the bonds of hopelessness for innocent people who have not received fair justice. These people have lost their freedom and are in prison because of erroneous accusations and wrongful convictions.

God's Will, love, respect, dedication, integrity, and high-quality-involvement are the hallmarks of T&J's approaches when helping people in need.

Who Is Eligible for T&J Services?

Home Page presents an overview of services provided to:

(1) Innocent, indigent, pre-trial suspects who have been erroneously accused of crimes and civil wrongdoings.

(2) Innocent, indigent, post-conviction inmates who have been wrongfully incarcerated in prisons across America and around the world. And,

(3) Innocent, indigent, former employees and neighbors wrongfully accused in their places of work and neighborhoods leading to loss of their livelihoods and professions, and / or payment of fines.

- National Innocence Project -

National Innocence Project, sponsored by Truth and Justice Foundation (T&J), is the instrument through which multiple key services are provided to indigent citizens who are victims of erroneous justice and other forms of serious wrong-doing against innocent people.

Visitors to this web site who need services from National Innocence Project for their innocent loved ones in prison or to provide assistance to others in need, should read Home Page carefully. At the bottom of this page you can make your donations and grants via the following national credit cards: American Express, Diners Club International, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa, as well as, PayPal.

Innocent people now incarcerated and those who are awaiting justice at pre-trial are key recipients of assistance from T&J Foundation. T&J Foundation provides other assistance to needy people around the world.

Mission

National Innocence Project assesses criminal cases and non-criminal situations involving indigents. When probable innocence of a suspect or an incarcerated person is established and justified, T&J provides a range of professional services described below using private and public donations and grants, when funds are available. National Innocence Project also donates funds and assists other people in need.

Services - National Innocence Project

National Innocence Project personnel assess cases and justify services. Services include:

evaluating cases to justify probable innocence, case investigations, forensic testing, and post exoneration and removal services including medical assessments and treatment, housing assistance, and job training and location assistance. National Innocence Project also assesses and provides assistance for other needy people.

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Candidates for Services

Candidates for T&J services most often have no jobs, and exist under bleak, anxious, and lonely conditions. Some are imprisoned by mistake and some are awaiting execution by mistake.

Other candidates for T&J services are those who are wrongfully judged at their places of work or in their neighborhoods. As a result, they often lose their credibility and their means of livelihood, leading to indigence.

Candidates for services provided by T&J's National Innocence Project must fall into one of the below categories:

· Must be indigent and must be a pre-trial defendant who is waiting to be tried in court based upon probable erroneous accusations. Or,

· Must be indigent and in prison now. This person must have been convicted and imprisoned by probable mistake and is currently serving either a short or long prison term. Or,

· Must be indigent and on Death Row now awaiting execution. Or,

· Must be indigent and a former employee or former homeowner or a former renter who has lost his job or lost his home because he was wrongfully judged at his place of work or in his current or former neighborhood and because of that wrongful judgment, has been rendered indigent. Note: Candidates for services in this category, victims of civil wrong doing, have lost their professional or technical credibility, their jobs, their homes, and / or their abilities to defend themselves against erroneous and damaging accusations made by means of the possible irresponsible and / or devious acts of others.

· Must be in need of compassionate assistance.

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Do You Need Assistance from Truth and Justice Foundation? What Do You Need to Do?

If you (or the person you are assisting) is indigent (have no money) and fall into one of the above categories or into a similar category, we recommend that you do the following:

· Read the Contents of This Web Site. Please read Home Page first followed by About Truth and Justice Foundation and, then, read the remaining sections of this web site.

· Complete Questionnaire - Electronic. If you believe you qualify for services from National Innocence Project, please click on the 'Questionnaire - Electronic Tab' on the left side of this screen. Please read each question carefully, and provide your response in the designated area of the electronic form. Include only the important details of your case. Please be as direct and brief as possible. Then, you should save your responses in a separate file for your future use. Then, press the submit button and we will receive it in the Truth and Justice Email box. If you want to assure yourself that we have received your completed electronic questionnaire, please email us separately to Truth and Justice Foundation at: Thompson@truth-justice.org . OR

· Complete Questionnaire - Manual. If you not have access to a computer on a full-time basis, please click on the 'Questionnaire - Manual Tab' on the left side of this screen. Download, print, and read the questionnaire carefully. Once you have read the document, please complete all the questions. Please include important details only and be as direct and brief as possible. Then, please mail the completed questionnaire to:

Truth and Justice Foundation

Attn: Dr. Nash O. Thompson II

President and Founder

Greater Washington, D.C. Area

9603 Little Cobbler Court

Burke, VA 22015

· Call Truth and Justice Foundation. If you do not have access to a computer or do not have access to one on a full-time basis, you should call Dr. Thompson or one of his staff at 703 440 8070 to discuss your case and your questionnaire.

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501(c)(3)

T&J is a 501(c)(3) public, charitable, non-profit, tax-exempt organization registered with the Internal Revenue Service of the U.S.A., and with the Commonwealth of Virginia, U.S.A., since Sep 13, 2000.

Truth and Justice Foundation is an international organization providing services throughout every city, county, state, and federal jurisdictions in the United States. T&J also provides similar services overseas. T&J's president and founder has over 20 years of experience working and living in seven countries and visiting over 30 other countries.

Internal Revenue Code: 501 (c) (3)

Public Charity Status: 170 (b) (1) (A) (vi)

Internal Revenue Service Contact Telephone: 877 829 5500

Services and Service Providers

Current Services.

Truth and Justice Foundation's (T&J) National Innocence Project currently provides investigative and forensic testing services throughout the USA and worldwide, and uses numerous tests and service providers including:

· Brain Fingerprinting Tests by Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc. Go to: Brain Fingerprinting Tests

· DNA Testing by Orchid Cellmark, Inc. Go to: DNA Testing

· Forensic Computer Investigations by CICORP

· Case Investigations by Oceania Investigations Go to: Investigations

· Other Services and Organizations, Partners or Funders Participating in the Projects and Their Roles.

Truth and Justice (T&J) Foundation provides numerous services including (1) case investigations involving highly specialized cameras for crime scene analyses, (2) forensic testing, (3) T&J legal matters, and (4) case preliminary legal matters. Other investigative capabilities are provided below.

Forensic testing capabilities include:

DNA analyses, forensic chemistry analyses, Brain Fingerprinting Tests, forensic computer investigative services, voice identification, audiotape enhancement / authentication, questioned document examination, handwriting analysis, still-image enhancement, time-lapse videotape testing, recorder testing, forensic tape analysis, forgery sequencing of entries, alterations additions, rewriting, ink dating, type writing, facsimiles, photocopies, fingerprints, narcotics and street drug analyses, analytical and forensic chemistry, firearms, tool mark examination, shoe and tire prints, handwriting, crime scene reconstruction, criminal forensic matters, and reviews and analyses of completed serology tests.

Planned / Future Forensic Testing Capabilities.

T&J is currently arranging to implement numerous additional forensic analyses in the following areas: abrasives, adhesives, anthropology, arson, bank security dyes, biological samples, blood splatter, building materials, controlled substances, cords, electronic devices, elemental analyses, explosives, explosives residue, facial recognition, fire arms, fiber, fraud, glass, hairs, inks, latent prints, materials, metallurgy, Odontology, paints, pharmaceuticals, photographic images, polymers, racketeering records, ropes, safe insulation, serial numbers, shoe-prints, soil, tidemarks, toxicology, wood, and others as required.

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Volunteer Work and Donated Services

Individuals and organizations provide volunteer and donated services, and donated products to Truth and Justice Foundation. Types of volunteer work and donated services and products vary and include the following examples:

· Administrative Services 1: Developing and sending a wide range of correspondence to potential donors and grantors to request funding and pro bono services.

· Administrative Services 2: Arranging / scheduling case assessments to determine probable innocence.

· Administrative Services 3: Contacting corrections officers to schedule forensic tests in prisons,

· Legal Services: Providing legal services to T&J and to innocent defendants,

· Testing Services: Performing forensic testing services,

· Investigative Services: Performing a wide range of investigative services,

· Product Contributions. Contributing software and hardware, and office machines including laptop and tabletop computers, printers, copy machines, furniture, and other office equipment.

If you are interested in providing your time and / or your materials to this effort, please inform us by email, phone, or by USPS.

· Specify Geographical Areas of Operations for Your Grants or Donations

· T&J Provides International Services;

· Apply Funds for Specific Cases

Truth and Justice Foundation’s National Innocence Project operates in every city, county, state, territory, and federal jurisdiction in the United States.

At the request of specific donors and grantors, T&J utilizes donated and granted funds in accordance with the requirements set forth by donors and grantors. That is, your donated and grant funds are disbursed / allocated by T&J personnel to meet your specific requests and purposes, to include your:

· Specific geographic locations

· Specific jurisdictions

· Specific facilities

· Specific cases

· Specific people.

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Scenario Against the Innocent

The below scenario is one of hundreds of distinct scenarios that occurs with frequency throughout America, and many other countries. Being at or near the scene of a crime makes one particularly vulnerable to false accusation, trial, and conviction. But, you do not have to be anywhere near the crime scene to be accused, tried, and convicted. This was the case surrounding the erroneous and wrongful accusation, trial, and incarceration for 26 years of Terry Harrington who was miles away with friends at the time a murder was committed. This means that you and I could become the focus of a criminal investigation and could be convicted of a crime about which we have no knowledge or connection.

Understanding how simple it is for innocent people to end up in prison without being connected to a crime and to know that it happens very frequently - 60,000 to 285,000 times during recent history, should catch your attention forthwith. Put yourself in the below hypothetical.

Scenario:

We had not heard anything from my wife's aged, invalid mother for about 36 hours; we usually talked to her every day like clock work to find out how she was feeling and if she needed anything. Alarmed at her failure to call us, my wife and I went to my mother-in-law's apartment and found her dead on the floor in a pool of blood. My wife and I were in a state of shock and disbelief at finding our loved one dead, possibly due to a fall or even by violence.

After I had phoned the police to report the death of my mother-in-law, police homicide investigators arrived and were everywhere in our apartment collecting evidence. They immediately separated my wife and me and began independent interrogations regarding the lifeless body on the floor. At one point, investigators informed me that my wife's and my accounts of discovering my mother-in-law's body did not match.

It appeared that the homicide investigators did not believe our accounts surrounding who discovered my mother-in-law's body first. They indicated that they had a problem with the results of our interrogations and they would have to go through the whole interrogation again. They were quite aggressive and it appeared they were trying to link us to her death even though they themselves had not determined if the death was due to a fall or was by violence. Two interrogations later we were numb. Our shock of finding our loved one was overwhelming, but it was now turning into fear because it was becoming more and more evident that the investigators were attempting to link us to my mother-in-law's death.

At 49 years of age and after living a happy life focused around God and family, I had never been the brunt of a criminal investigation. I was scared to death, and could only imagine that my wife who was being interrogated in the next room had the same feelings.

It was at this time that I began to remember the newspaper and television stories of people being accused, tried, convicted, and incarcerated for crimes that they did not commit. Some were sentenced to 25 years, others 50 years, others for life, and still others to Death Row. Where was this terrible event going to lead us? I was petrified to believe that we could be caught up in a problem, a problem from which we might not be able to extract ourselves. We were people of modest means and had no money set aside to hire a highly experienced, well-known defense team. What were we to do? How far was this going to go? Would we be taken to jail and indicted for murder? How could this happen?

Note: Many, many people experience the same real-life situation described above. Some are able to clear themselves; yet, others are processed through the judicial system. Competent sources estimate that between 3% and 15% of the inmates in prisons across the USA, are innocent. This means that of the 2 million people incarcerated in America today, from 60,000 to 285,000 innocents are in prison. These numbers grow at the same ratio regarding over 5 million Americans who are under some form of control by the Corrections System outside the nation's prisons, e.g., parole, payment of fines, etc.

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Understanding the Hopelessness of Losing One's Personal Freedom, Being Innocent and Indigent, and Having No One Interested in Helping to Fund Your Struggle for Freedom

The following short presentation is intended to provide key information to all site visitors. It is especially intended, however, for organizations who provide grant funds, individuals who donate cash, and organizations and individuals who contribute services, software and hardware, and other products and resources to the Foundation, to understand the importance of resolving this huge national problem.

What can be more important than losing one's freedom due to unfair justice and wrongful incarceration of innocent citizens. What can be more surprising and harmful than expecting to receive a fair trial when you are innocent, but suddenly you find yourself in a cell measuring 8' high, 10' long, and 6' wide on Death Row or serving a sentence of 1 year to 50 years or life. Innocent, indigent defendants are finding themselves in this situation daily and need your assistance now, today!

Our Request and Plea for Your Grant Funds, Donations, and/or contributions:

With unparalleled and unprecedented frequency, Americans are experiencing the loss of our most fundamental freedom --- personal physical freedom.

Already, from 60,000 to 285,000 innocent inmates are in prison. The exact number is not known, but between 3% and 15% of the current prison population of 2 million inmates are believed innocent. Only 111 of those inmates have been exonerated and removed from prison during the past 30 years.

Unless we remain super-vigilant and proactive 24/7, we could possibly awaken one day to find that incarceration of innocent citizens has become a tolerable practice by some of our federal, state, and local justice systems in America. 'Then' will be too late to fund National Innocence Project.

Indigence, incompetence, human mistakes, and deviousness are root causes of this horrendous problem. Indigence, however, is the overriding root-cause that prevents pre-trial and post-conviction defendants from obtaining fair justice. Inability to obtain fair justice because of lack of money creates an extremely serious, severe, brutal, and cruel problem affecting the lives of the tens of thousands of innocent inmates now serving short and long-term prison terms. And, lack of money becomes a much larger issue for possibly hundreds of innocents now serving the final days of their lives on Death Row.

Once in prison, indigent innocent inmates have practically no hope nor means by which to regain their freedom. Obtaining fair justice during appeals processes requires the services of competent attorneys, and competent attorneys charge high fees. Since the greater majority of inmates are indigent, no money exists to hire competent attorneys, and, therefore, the appeals process can be a dead-end road for most innocent inmates who are trying to prove their innocence.

Governments, corporations, foundations, and individuals rarely allocate funds for liberating innocent inmates. Government tax monies, on the contrary, are used to imprison people, not to free them. Innocents in prison have minimal recourse and resources to fight for their freedom.

Failure to fund innocence projects exists because organizations and individual people are unaware of the magnitude and significance of the problem.

Without your grant funds, donated cash, and contributions of products and services to Truth and Justice Foundation's National Innocence Project, many innocents will continue to languish away their lives in prison being abused by other inmates while others lose their lives on Death Row.

Innocent inmates suffer immeasurably. Families and friends of the innocent inmates suffer grievously. America suffers at home and abroad significantly, but somehow allows this problem to continue. America's lack of approach to this problem must change because we are dealing with innocent human beings who have been incarcerated due to failures in our criminal justice system. Unfair justice can happen to any one of us at any time. Furthermore, it is our responsibility and duty to assist in the exoneration and removal processes of innocent people who cannot help themselves. Attempt, please, to put yourself in their position.

Your grant funds, along with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and persistence of Truth and Justice Foundation’s National Innocence Project, are their only hope. Without your grants, donations, and contributions, most of the innocents now in prison will remain there.

For companies and foundations that are committed to funding only specific projects or in specific geographical areas, we ask that your board of directors vote to allow emergency grants to help resolve this problem. We request that you please expand your grant funding mission to include funds for National Innocence Project. Probably every prison and jail in every jurisdiction throughout this nation have innocent inmates. Truth and Justice Foundation works projects in every jurisdiction in every city, county, territory, state, and federal area.

Grant funds , cash donations, and contributions of products and professional services are used to:

· Identify probable innocents.

· Re-investigate cases.

· Obtain legal guidance.

· Forensic-test inmates and evidence.

· Obtain fair justice using competent pro bono attorneys.

· Exonerate and remove innocents from prison. And,

· Rehabilitate liberated, innocent citizens.

Innocent inmates, some having already served 5 to 30 or more years in prison, need your help now. They cannot wait another day or month or year. They are innocent and need to be liberated now.

Few grant-making organizations know of this enormously threatening problem. Your board of directors should vote to fund National Innocence Project, now, on an emergency basis. If not, our freedoms can vanish just as easily as the personal physical freedoms of the thousands of innocents currently in America’s prisons.

Thank you very much!

For additional information, please request our 4-page Letter of Inquiry to be forwarded to you by either email or U.S. Postal Service. Also, two documents are available to grant-making organizations, and to donors and contributors who make large cash donations and significant contributions of materials and products. The documents are: Grant Application, 49 pages; and, our Business and Implementation Plan, 175 pages.

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Our Best Wishes to You!

May God bless you, your family, and your friends. May God bless and unite all peoples. May God show each of us the path by which we can pursue His Will. In quest of His Will, may we always be disposed to share our bounty with people from every walk of life without discrimination or other exclusion.

May God help us to understand the meaning of Love, and in so doing, prompt us to lead others to Compassion and Peace and Harmony and Forgiveness.

May all religions and all so-called exclusive clubs, groups, and units break down their barriers and segregations inviting everyone to participate TOGETHER in prayer, in compassion, in forgiveness, in life, in love, in hope, and in charity.

May we pass our days earning our living and caring for our family and friends, and also serving others, and in doing so, alleviate poverty, hunger, sickness, loneliness, hate, anger, and all other forms of hurt and suffering.

May we withdraw the innocent from prison now, today, so that those individuals can rejoin their lives and families and friends, and put an end to their current interminable, unjust, and wrongful suffering. May we help all others in the form in which they need assistance: the sick, the afflicted, the hungry, the homeless, the forgotten, the abused, the hated, and all others - for WE ARE ALL GOD'S LOVED ONES.

Only when we achieve the above together can we begin to realize the true meaning of love, peace, harmony, and happiness throughout this world. All of this will bring us steps closer to God now on earth and forever in our life after life.

Then, when God calls us to return home, may we rejoice about the results of our life on earth serving others. Then, may He reunite us with our loved ones who have passed on before us, and may we all share eternal Love.

God Bless You.

Nash O. Thompson II and Family.

Please Contact Us

To discuss services for innocent inmates, pro bono services for attorneys and investigators, and /or to discuss your donation and grant funds.

Telephone:

001 703 440 8070

Email:

Thompson@truth-justice.org

Postal address:

Greater Washington D.C. Area

9603 Little Cobbler Court

Burke, VA 22015 U.S.A.