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?
July 22, 2023
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.
Wrongful Conviction: The Exoneration of Willie T. Donald
December 23, 2020
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.
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Team fights for justice
Indiana center aims to reform system, support exonerees
May 21, 2023
Since Purdue University Northwest’s Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance’s Grand Reveal Dinner in September, the team has been hard at work.
Between securing a grant to create a program to educate police officers on wrongful convictions to providing financial assistance to exonerees, the CJPA is striving to eliminate flaws in the justice system.
Dr. Nicky Ali Jackson on treating the trauma that stems from being wrongfully convicted
October 25, 2022
Dr. Nicky Ali Jackson works at Purdue University Northwest (PNW) where she serves as a Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, and the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance. She also serves as President of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition and is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest civilian honor bestowed by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb for her humanity and service to the citizens of Indiana.
CJPA Launches Work to Fight Miscarriages of Justice
Exoneree Timmy Donald, Nicky Jackson and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb chat before the start of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance dinner.
September 22, 2022
The Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance (CJPA) at PNW has begun research and advocacy work to meet its mission of averting miscarriages of justice for prisoners experiencing wrongful convictions and exonerees.
The grand reveal dinner served as a gathering of socially conscious individuals and led to an elegant evening of laughter and insightful dialogue.
Photo: John J. Watkins, The Times
Purdue Northwest Associate Professor Nicky Ali Jackson awarded Sagamore of the Wabash
PNW’s Nicky Jackson receives the Sagamore of the Wabash.
August 31, 2021
PNW Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Nicky Ali Jackson was honored Monday, Aug. 30 with the Sagamore of the Wabash, one of the highest civilian honors bestowed by the sitting Indiana governor in recognition of service to the state or the governor.
Man Who Spent 24 Years in Prison on Wrongful Conviction Teams with Professor to Help Other Exonerees
May 12, 2021
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.
February 12, 2021
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.
