The Center on Wrongful Convictions is accepting up to eight undergraduate student interns to support their work this summer, for five days a week from June 1st – July 31st, 2026.
The internship is a project-based, unpaid hybrid opportunity that will require at least two in-person days a week for class instruction and group work. In-person days take place at their downtown Chicago office.
When the Center for Wrongful Convictions (CWC) launched in April 1999, wrongful convictions were viewed as anomalies — rare exceptions to an otherwise well-oiled criminal justice machine. We know now, however, that prisons and death rows around the country are populated by countless individuals who have been wrongly convicted: innocent people doing someone else’s time. The CWC is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice. To date, the CWC has exonerated more than forty innocent men, women, and children from states around the country, and it receives thousands of inquiries a year.
