Citizens became concerned with individuals going to trial if they were going too rightfully or wrongfully be convicted and in 1992, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law founded the Innocent Project. This project became a national litigation, and public policy organization that used its time and resources to make sure DNA testing would be used on offenders preventing the court systems from wrongfully convicting innocent people, as well as, reforming the criminal justice system preventing future injustice. Twelve years after the organization was founded they have used DNA testing in three hundred and thirty cases where each individual was exonerated in their case, along with twenty convicted offenders who were sitting on death row.
