Starting this year, a course on wrongful convictions and awareness is mandatory for all new police recruits across Illinois.

On today's 21st, we talk to to lawyers who secured the release of a potentially innocent man from prison, have a conversation about the Aunt Jemima brand and protecting the monarch butterfly.

Before leaving office, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner granted a pardon to a man wrongly convicted of attempted murder. What makes this clemency unique is that man, Grover Thompson, is now deceased.

The Illinois Innocence Project, based at the University of Illinois Springfield, has won a $641,000 grant for DNA testing intended to help exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates. 

Illinois is finally making good on some of its most overdue bills — compensating people who were unjustly imprisoned.