Life After Justice was founded by Jarrett Adams and Antione Day — not from theory, but from what they lived and what they returned home to.
When they were released, there was no system waiting to help them rebuild. No roadmap. No support. Just the weight of everything that had been taken — and the expectation to start over with nothing.
They know the gaps because they lived them — and, in many ways, still do.
Life After Justice was built in response to that absence. Not to complement existing systems, but to fill what was never there. To create the support, advocacy, and community they needed — and refused to accept did not exist.
Today, that vision is carried forward by a board of leaders who have collectively spent 93 years wrongfully incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Nearly a century of stolen time that now shapes every decision we make.
We advance this work through data-driven strategic litigation, holistic mental health support, and research rooted in lived experience — because freedom must mean more than survival.
Jarrett Adams was wrongfully convicted at 17 and spent nearly a decade incarcerated before his exoneration. He went on to earn his law degree and now represents others in the same systems that once failed him.
Antione Day, a social justice leader and exoneree, brings lived experience and community leadership to this work — ensuring it remains grounded in the realities people face long after release.
Together, they built Life After Justice as it is meant to be: a gap-filler, a builder, and a community shaped by those who have lived through what the system too often ignores.
Because wrongful incarceration does not end when the prison doors open. Its harm follows people home — through trauma, lost time, and systems that still fail to repair what they broke. We exist to change that.