Project Milgaard
@ProjectMilgaard
Help us to provoke change to Canada's Justice System.
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Check it out here! David at The Door! drive.google.com/file/d/1KcSKcM…
Today in 1992, David Milgaard is released from prison after spending 23 years there for a crime he didn't commit. In 1997, DNA evidence confirms he was innocent. He spends the rest of his life as a community support worker in Alberta before passing away in May 2022.
Hey, there is a short film about David Milgaard called 'David at the Door' it will be playing in #yyc on Monday Apr 24. Come check it out and support Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance calgaryundergroundfilm.org/2023/shorts-pa…
Free but not yet exonerated. #canada cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…
Last week, listening to The Tragically Hip’s “Wheat Kings” inspired by David Milgaard. When we met in 2019, David signed my copy. I told him that I would reform the wrongful conviction process, so no one would ever go through what he did. I hope I lived up to that promise.
For 23 years, David Milgaard was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, because of a wrongful conviction. Alongside his sister Susan & James Lockyer, we tabled David & Joyce Milgaard’s Law, establishing an Independent Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission.
Update on Nerissa and Odelia. #canada #justice #cdnpoli #Saskatchewan ctvnews.ca/canada/i-feel-…
ctvnews.ca
'I feel strong:' Bail hearing for sisters who say they were wrongfully convicted
Two sisters who have spent nearly 30 years in prison for what they say are wrongful murder convictions testified in a courtroom during a bail hearing Tuesday.
A facial recognition tool identified a Black man as a suspect in a theft in Louisiana. He was arrested 3 states and 7 hours away from the scene of the crime and spent a week in jail. But there’s a big problem: The man has never been to Louisiana gizmodo.com/facial-recogni…
Reasons to #AmendC5 to meet stated objectives to address all #MandatoryMinimumPenalties and #MassIncarceration of Black & Indigenous People. A thread.
Join the fight to free Odelia and Nerissa! Press Conference tomorrow morning! 9am MST/ 11am EST. #Canada ryerson.zoom.us/j/96410142565
In 3 yrs this #solar installation at a high school in Arkansas turned the district budget from a $250K deficit to a $1.8 million surplus. They're using the surplus to increase teacher salaries. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #renewables #cop27
High profile wrongful convictions such as this show us how prevalent this kind of injustice is in our society. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
$116,000 per year is what it costs to keep someone locked up in a Canadian prison (2016). $4.6 Billion is spent annually to operate Corrections Canada. efrynorthernalberta.com/cost-of-incarc….
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