Healing Justice: Crime Victims and Exonerees Find Common Ground

Multiple crime victims experienced secondary trauma, public blame, and guilt upon learning innocent men were imprisoned; exonerees lost decades to incarceration and struggle with psychological trauma and reintegration.

When the justice system fails, it rarely fails only once — it leaves behind a trail of wounded people on every side of the courtroom. Jennifer Thompson, a rape survivor whose misidentification sent an innocent man to prison for eleven years, recognized that exonerations tend to celebrate the freed while abandoning the victims who trusted a broken process. In 2015, she founded Healing Justice, creating a space where crime victims and wrongfully convicted exonerees from different cases could sit together, not to assign fault, but to acknowledge that systemic failure is a wound shared by many — a

Healing Justice: Crime Victims and Exonerees Find Common Ground

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