STOLEN LIVES

Joseph Guadagnoli
Joseph died of cancer while in custody at the federal prison in 2022. He had been trying to make his medical issues known to doctors

Joseph Sledge
Joseph Sledge was a North Carolina man who spent more than 36 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit. In 1978,

Joshua Wilson
Joshua Wilson (Los Angeles) was at a Black Lives Matter protest on July 14, 2020. The police knocked him off his wheelchair and broke the

Juan Catalan
Juan Catalan is a man from California who was wrongfully accused of murder in 2003 and came very close to being convicted. The case against

Juan Martin Núñez
Juan Martin Núñez was a man with a mental illness in the Santa Clara County jail. In August 2019, a lawsuit says jail staff left

Juan Rivera
Juan Rivera is a man from Illinois who was wrongfully convicted of a 1992 murder and spent about 20 years in prison, even though DNA

Julius Jones
Julius Jones is a man from Oklahoma who was sentenced to death for a 1999 murder, even though he has consistently maintained his innocence. His

Justin Perkins
Justin Perkins was a 38-year-old man with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia living in an apartment with his uncle in Anaheim, California. Perkins was mentally impaired,

Juston Root
Juston Root (Brookline, MA) was a 41 year old man with psychiatric disabilities. He was at a hospital in Brookline. He had a fake gun

Kajieme Powell
Kajieme Powell was a 25-year-oldman who had schizophrenia. He went to a store in St Lois, Missouri on August 20, 2014, where he grabbed some

Kalief Browder
Kalief Browder was a 16-year-old Black boy from the Bronx who was arrested in May 2010 on the suspicion of stealing a backpack. A charge

Karen Read
Karen Read is a woman from Massachusetts whose case became one of the most heavily discussed criminal trials in recent years. Read was accused of