During the 2025 Legislative Session the Montana Innocence Project fought for legislation to restore and improve a compensation program for exonerees, establish state coordinated reentry services, institute work time credit for individuals under state supervision, and to protect the innocent from capital punishment.

Today's conversation with MTIP Executive Director Amy Sings In The Timber examines the outcomes of HB 205, SB 217, HB 718, and HB 93. We will learn about the resulting reforms to the criminal legal system as well as the impact of the reform that did not pass, and how MTIP will move forward in the interim session.

MTIP Communications Associate Ashley Miller spoke with Dr. John Morgan, an author, researcher, and professor, internationally recognized for his work in forensic science. Dr. Morgan discussed his extensive research on forensic science errors in wrongful convictions, as well as how we can work towards mitigating future errors, and making system based reforms by forensic practitioners. Take a listen!

MTIP Communications Associate Ashley Miller spoke with Dr. Craig Haney, a social psychologist and a professor at the UC Santa Cruz, to discuss the psychological trauma and health effects that incarceration, and more specifically wrongful incarceration has on individuals. Haney holds psychology and law degrees, and began his career as one of the principal researchers on the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted in 1971, which would go on to inform his life’s research in real prisons across the country.