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Freedom Is Not Enough.
Healing Is Justice.

Release from prison does not erase the trauma of wrongful incarceration — and justice is not complete if the harm is allowed to happen again. Life After Justice works to ensure that freedom includes dignity, stability, and real opportunity to rebuild.

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$35
Helps ensure lived experience leads the change.
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$100
Supports those sharing their stories through research.
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Advances legal advocacy that restores lives and helps prevent future wrongful convictions.
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Powers comprehensive mental health and wellness support for those rebuilding their lives.
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Why Your Support Matters
Justice Doesn't End at Release — and It Must Prevent What Comes Next.

Freedom without support is not justice. Your support helps ensure people are not left to rebuild alone — and helps hold systems accountable so fewer lives are harmed in the future.

Survivors of wrongful incarceration face lifelong barriers to healing, stability, and opportunity. By investing in healing, accountability, and prevention together, you help turn individual recovery into lasting change.

Life After Justice is led by people who have lived the harm and understand what comes after release. Co-founded by exonerees and civil rights attorney Jarrett Adams and exoneree and community activist Antione Day, LAJ bridges lived experience and legal strategy to restore lives and prevent future injustice.

Wrongful incarceration harms individuals, families, and entire communities. Life After Justice is building a survivor-centered ecosystem that connects legal advocacy, healing, research, and policy — ensuring recovery is supported and future harm is prevented.

"Surviving wasn't enough — and I wanted to make sure no one else was forgotten."
Kristine Bunch · LAJ Board of Directors · 17 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated
"We're rewriting the system that tried to erase us, and turning our pain into policy."
Terrill Swift · LAJ Board of Directors · 15 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated
"Healing is a collective act."
Anna Vasquez · LAJ Board of Directors · 13 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated
What Your Donation Funds
Your Support Powers Accountability, Systemic Change, and Healing.

Your donation fuels all three — because justice requires accountability, healing, and prevention working together.

Pillar 01

Holding Systems Accountable

Life After Justice uses data-driven strategic litigation to challenge the practices that lead to wrongful convictions and to secure accountability when systems fail. Our legal work does more than correct individual injustices — it exposes systemic breakdowns, drives policy change, and helps prevent future harm.

Pillar 02

Turning Experience Into Evidence

Life After Justice conducts survivor-led national research to document both the causes and lifelong impact of wrongful incarceration. Through initiatives like the National Amplification Campaign, the National Incentivized Informant Research Project, and Pleas for Freedom: The Alford Plea Project, we collect survivor-reported data and case-level evidence that reveal patterns of harm and systemic failure.

Pillar 03

Healing That Lasts Beyond Release

Life After Justice provides trauma-informed, survivor-designed mental health and wellness support for people harmed by wrongful incarceration and their loved ones. Through our Holistic Mental Health & Wellness Pilot Program, we are not only delivering critical care — we are building a scalable, evidence-based model for how this community should be supported nationwide.

Release from prison does not erase the trauma of wrongful incarceration. Life After Justice works to ensure that freedom includes dignity, stability, and real opportunity to rebuild.
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The Life After Justice Fund
Flexible Support, Guided by Lived Experience.

The Life After Justice Fund provides unrestricted support that allows us to respond to where the need is greatest — guided by the leadership of people who have lived the harm.

Give to the Fund

The Life After Justice Fund provides unrestricted support that allows us to respond to where the need is greatest — guided by the leadership of people who have lived the harm and understand what justice requires in real time.

This flexibility sustains our day-to-day work while allowing us to invest strategically across advocacy, healing, and research as needs evolve. When justice cannot wait, flexible funding ensures decisions are made by those closest to impact — enabling us to act quickly, thoughtfully, and with the insight that only lived experience can provide.

Ways to Give
Option 01

One-time or monthly gifts

Option 02

Honorary or memorial gifts

Option 03

Donor-advised funds

Option 04

Employer matching gifts

Prefer to Give by Mail?

Send a check payable to Life After Justice along with your name and contact information. All mailed gifts are acknowledged within five business days.

Mail Your Donation To
Life After Justice
4455 South King Dr
Suite 100A
Chicago, IL 60653