{"id":60,"date":"2010-08-25T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:34:31","slug":"innocenceprojectgrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/innocenceprojectgrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Innocence Project Awarded $50K Grant from Mississippi Bar Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u2026  Funds will help fund full-time staff attorney position, other operational  costs<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>OXFORD,  Miss. \u2013\u00a0For the third year in a row, the Mississippi Innocence  Project in the University of Mississippi School of Law has been awarded  a $50,000 grant by the Mississippi Bar Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The  award is made possible through the Mississippi Interest on Lawyers Trust  Account Program and from Rule 6.1 through the Mississippi Bar. The IOLTA  program was established by order of the Mississippi Supreme Court as  a source of funding for legal aid to the poor, law-related public education  programs and improving the administration of justice. Since its inception  in 1984, the program has awarded more than $11 million in grants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IOLTA  funds have been critical to us in meeting our missions and goals,&#8221;  said Tucker Carrington, Mississippi Innocence Project director. &#8220;Last  year&#8217;s grant helped fund a full-time staff attorney position. This year&#8217;s  (award) will do the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IOLTA  funding helped solidify the project&#8217;s presence, Carrington said. &#8220;The  grant is a sustaining gift \u2013 one that we think is indicative of what  partnerships like this can do when they work together,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Established  in 2007, the Mississippi Innocence Project is committed to providing  the highest quality legal representation to its clients: Mississippi  state prisoners serving significant periods of incarceration who have  cognizable claims of wrongful conviction. The project seeks also to  identify and address systemic problems in the criminal justice system  and to develop initiatives designed to raise public and political awareness  of the prevalence, causes and societal costs of wrongful convictions.<\/p>\n<p>For  additional information on the Mississippi Innocence Project, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/ww.mississippiinnocence.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.<wbr><\/wbr>mississippiinnocence.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For  more information on the Mississippi Bar Foundation or the IOLTA program,  visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msbar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.msbar.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 Funds will help fund full-time staff attorney position, other operational costs OXFORD, Miss. \u2013\u00a0For the third year in a row, the Mississippi Innocence Project in the University of Mississippi School of Law has been awarded a $50,000 grant by the Mississippi Bar Foundation.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[1249],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - 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