The Full Time Work of Freeing People From Louisiana’s ‘Horrible’ Criminal Justice System
Image: Jim Cooke/ GMG Since 2001, the Innocence Project New Orleans [IPNO] has freed 33 innocent people from spending their lives in prison in one of the very harshest states in America. We spoke to Jee Park, the group’s executive director, about racism and the quest for justice, in Louisiana and everywhere. Park began her legal career at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, and later worked as a public defender in New York and New Orleans. She has began working for the IPNO in 2017, and became its director last year. Advertisement Splinter: Louisiana has one of the highest...
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