Welcome to the Belmont Innocence Club for Criminal Justice! We are a club from Belmont, MA that works to educate our community on wrongful convictions and advocate for criminal justice reform.

Change starts at the individual level.

Club Resources

• sign up
• newsletter
• instagram

Educate and Advocate

• donate
• brochure
• mass exoneration podcast
• new england innocence project
• the innocence network
• national registry of exonerations

Resource Documents

Below, you will find resource documents that we have compiled to help educate ourselves and our community. Feel free to explore and learn more!

• 13th amendment
• capital punishment
• decriminalizing drugs
• decriminalizing homelessness
• mass incarceration
• post-prison support systems
• protection of minors
• felon disenfranchisement
• racial bias
• school-to-prison pipeline
• veterans and homelessness
• women in prisons
• wrongful convictions 101

Specific Cases

The following resource documents provide information on specific cases that we have studied as a club.

• alfred bourgeois
• brandon bernard
• david mccallum
• dustin higgs
• ernst jean-jacques
• pervis payne
• victor rosario