The human cost
Wrongful conviction doesn't end with the person convicted.
It costs children a parent, families their income and stability, and communities someone who should have been there. Every national number below represents thousands of stories like the ones our clients are living right now.
The scale, nationally
- Exonerations recorded in the U.S. since 1989
- 3,850+
- Years collectively lost to wrongful imprisonment
- 36,000+
- People exonerated in 2025 alone, averaging 14.2 years lost each
- 97
Exonerations recorded in the U.S. since 1989
Years collectively lost to wrongful imprisonment
People exonerated in 2025 alone, averaging 14.2 years lost each
Source — National Registry of Exonerations
Xonorate's cases, by the numbers
Counted live from our own case files — not a national estimate.
- Clients represented
- 6
- States represented
- 2
- Views generated on social media
- 10 Million+
- Children who grew up without a parent
- 2
- Petition signatures collected
- 13,087
Clients represented
States represented
Views generated on social media
Children who grew up without a parent
Petition signatures collected
Each number is a family
The people behind our cases
What wrongful conviction cost the families and communities around them.
- Read Taron's story →
Taron HillTaron Hill was 18 years old and working at a McDonald's fast food restaurant when he was arrested. His only child was one month old at the time, meaning the earliest weeks of his child's life were also the last he spent with them before his wrongful conviction separated them. Wrongful convictions damage far more than the individual falsely accused; they fracture families, and some are never able to rebuild.
- Read Richard's story →
Richard BargeRichard Barge was 21 and working labor jobs when he was arrested, and he was single with a 2-year-old son. His mother was taking medication for depression and high blood pressure. His son grew up raised by a single parent, living house to house.
- Read Lamar's story →
Lamar AlfordLamar Alford was 25 and single at the time of his arrest, and the father of a 6-year-old child. He was trying to attend school for HVAC when the case interrupted those plans. His arrest separated him from his child during years when that child was growing up.
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