This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Running for Innocence team! To mark the occasion, our team looks forward to returning to the Lexington Battlegreen 5K/10K for our eighth year of participating in this fabulous running event! As in years past, this event offers several great options for runners and non-runners of all ages. It is also a wonderful opportunity to meet and welcome our exoneree team members, who every year inspire us to continue the important work of fighting wrongful convictions.
The Running for Innocence (RFI) team was formed in 2014 to support the work of the New England Innocence Project and its partners at the CPCS Innocence Program and Boston College Innocence Program to free the innocent and build an inclusive and welcoming community for wrongfully convicted men and women. The team offers a way for runners to directly support the costs of investigation and expert case review of innocent men and women who remain behind bars, as well as to provide reentry support for those who have gained their freedom with the help of these three organizations. Money raised by runners as part of the RFI team goes directly toward the costs of hiring the experts and investigators who give innocent men and women in New England a fighting chance to achieve justice and freedom.
We are aiming to raise $25,000 to support the New England Innocence Project’s Running for Innocence fund. The funds raised by this event will help pay for the investigators and experts needed to free innocent men and women still behind bars for crimes they did not commit.
Thank you in advance for your support of this worthy cause!
