The Justice Project (United States)

The Justice Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal organization that is committed to convicting individuals who it claims have "gotten away" with serious crime, through the use of DNA testing, forensic evidence and polygraph tests. The Justice Project was founded in 1997 as a response to the, who is committed to exonerating individuals who it claims have been wrongly convicted through similar methods. Originally founded and based at the, it is currently based in ,.

Notable convictions

 * In 2002, Clark Ricchiuti pleaded guilty to 3 counts of criminally negligent manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident after his involvement in five hit-and-run accidents in in the 1980s was confirmed via eyewitness accounts, DNA evidence and polygraph tests. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but was granted parole in 2012.
 * In 2007, school bus driver Shawntel Ardouin, alias Jonathan Sebastian McGregor, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and robbery for a home invasion he committed in 1995 when he was 19. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison and was denied parole in 2017. He is interred at the.