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by Barbara Bradley Hagerty Photo credit: Nathan Bajar for The Atlantic Benjamine Spencer is an innocent man who has been incarcerated for nearly 34 years. Twenty one years ago, Centurion took on Ben's case. Jim McCloskey, in partnership with a team of tireless attorneys and investigators, uncovered...

Our live virtual event, held via Zoom, on Dec. 1, 2020. Featuring Centurion staff, board, and an exonoree. In order of appearance: Corey Waldron (Executive Director), Rob Mooney (Board Chair), Alan Maimon (Case Investigator), Kim Weston (Case Development Manger), Paul Casteleiro (Legal Director), Kate Germond...

KEVIN DESALLE RELEASED AFTER 24 YEARS OF WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT Kevin Desalle became the 64th person Centurion freed on September 24, 2020 when he was released from the Louisiana State Prison, a/k/a Angola where he had been imprisoned for 24 years serving a life sentence without the...

Jim McCloskey was interviewed by Brian Shortridge, a librarian at the Buchanan Public Library in Grundy, VA. Some of the topics discussed in this interview include Jim's book, his years of advocacy for the wrongly convicted, and the Roger Coleman case, which occurred in Grundy,...

Air Date: August 27, 2020 Jim McCloskey: “When Truth is All You Have” (downloadable version) 37 years ago, JIM MCCLOSKEY founded Centurion, the first non-profit dedicated to helping exonerate people wrongly convicted of crimes. Since then, he has helped free over 60 people serving sentences for...

Be sure to listen to Jim McCloskey's interview with Terry Gross! https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893488656/faith-justice-and-freedom-for-the-wrongly-convicted From NPR: "Jim McCloskey, a lay minister, has devoted the past 40 years of his life to seeking justice and exoneration for men and women on death row or serving life sentences for crimes they...