Media Coverage
Read about news, information and media mentions from the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance at Purdue University Northwest.
Click the image to watch Nicky Jackson and Timmy Donald’s episode of “People Magazine Investigates.”
A Coerced Confession?
Nicky Ali Jackson, executive director of Purdue University Northwest’s Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance in Hammond, was quoted recently in the Chicago Sun-Times article about Cleveland “Christopher” Bynum, a Gary man serving a 300-year sentence for 5 killings another man later confessed to.
CJPA Grand Reveal Dinner
On September 22, 2022, the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance at Purdue University Northwest had its grand reveal dinner. This gathering of socially conscious individuals led to an elegant evening of laughter and insightful dialogue.
Photo: John J. Watkins, The Times
Wrongful Conviction: The Exoneration of Willie T. Donald
True Crime Daily Podcast: Our guest is Willie “Timmy” Donald, an Indiana man wrongly convicted of robbery and murder who served more than 20 years in prison before he was exonerated. We discuss how Mr. Donald went car-shopping with family one night in 1992 and ended up in a police lineup, how police and prosecutors let the wrong man go to prison — and what has changed since.
More Media Mentions
Man Who Spent 24 Years in Prison on Wrongful Conviction Teams with Professor to Help Other Exonerees
Exoneree Willie T. Donald and Dr. Nicky Jackson of Purdue University Northwest work together to help wrongly convicted people in their post-prison lives.
Kim Kardashian visits Purdue University Northwest criminal justice class
Purdue University Northwest students received a visit from Kim Kardashian (upper left corner) while discussing wrongful conviction and mass incarceration in Associate Professor Nicky Ali Jackson’s Wrongful Convictions class.
Students in Purdue University Northwest (PNW) Associate Professor Nicky Ali Jackson’s Wrongful Convictions class were astonished and thrilled Thursday (Feb. 11) when Kim Kardashian joined their Zoom class to discuss her work on wrongful conviction and mass incarceration.
