Unpacking Injustice
Unpacking Injustice is a Montana Innocence Project podcast that tells the real stories behind wrongful and unjust convictions and illuminates the complex issues responsible for making our criminal justice system unjust.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Katie Garding’s Backpacking Adventure: Finding Presence in Nature
In this episode of Unpacking Injustice, Montana Innocence Project client Katie Garding shares her experience on a three-day women’s backpacking retreat at Doris Lake near Whitefish, Montana. While th…
Podcast: Hear from MTIP Legal Director on How to Apply for our Legal Services
Our mission is to free the innocent and unjustly incarcerated, and advocate for systems of Justice that are accurate, accountable, and fair for all. One of the main ways we achieve this is through pr…
Podcast: Exploring the History, Controversies, and Misconceptions Surrounding the Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome with Katherine Judson (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this series, we continue our conversation with Katherine Judson, the Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences. In this episode we will explore how similar symp…
Podcast: Exploring the History, Controversies, and Misconceptions Surrounding the Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome with Katherine Judson (Part 1)
In today’s episode you will hear from Katherine Judson, the Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences.
Katherine previously served as the SBS/AHT Litigation Coordinator for …
Podcast: MTIP Board Member Paul Leisher Explains the Highly Controversial Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome and MTIP Client Aaron Oliphant’s Case (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this series, we continue our conversation with MTIP Board Member and criminal defense attorney Paul Leisher to delve deeper into the details of Aaron Oliphant’s case, examining how his i…
MTIP Board Member Paul Leisher Explains the Highly Controversial Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome and MTIP Client Aaron Oliphant’s Case (Part 1)
MTIP Board Member and criminal defense attorney Paul Leisher sat down with MTIP Communications Associate Ashley Miller to explain the highly controversial diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome, the role …
Podcast: MTIP Executive Director Unpacks 2025 Legislative Session
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, ins…
Dr. John Morgan explains how forensic science errors perpetuate wrongful convictions
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 ext…
Dr. Craig Haney discusses the psychological trauma and health effects that prison has on incarcerated individuals
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 incarce…
Montana Innocence Project staff, and freed client share biggest takeaways from the 2024 Innocence Network Conference in New Orleans
Last week, four Montana Innocence Project staff members and freed client Joseph Jefferson-Dust attended the 2024 Innocence Network Conference in New Orleans.
Over 1,200 people were united in community…
MTIP client Katie Garding discusses updates on where her wrongful conviction case stands today, her newfound career, and her hopes for the future
MTIP Communications Associate Ashley Miller spoke with client Katie Garding to discuss her reentry journey over the last year, after her wrongful conviction was overturned in March of 2023. She discu…
MTIP client Bernard Pease Jr. reflects on his first month home after spending nearly 40 years wrongfully incarcerated
MTIP Communications Manager Ashley Miller spoke with client Bernard Pease Jr. and his sister Linda Thomas over the phone to discuss his re-entry journey after spending nearly 40 years wrongfully inca…
Hear from the formerly incarcerated Indigenous women transforming Lake County Drug Court
Dana Comes At Night, Lisa Brueggeman, and Stacy Markus play instrumental roles in the Adult Drug Court program located in Polson, Montana, which serves Lake County defendants receiving treatment for …
MTIP to begin examining ‘Second Chances’ for unjustly incarcerated Montanans
The Montana Innocence Project is beginning the exciting work of digging into how we can meaningfully address not only wrongful convictions but also unjust convictions. In today’s episode, MTIP Execut…
How cash bail impacts the innocent, how Missoula County is engaging with reform
MTIP Executive Director Amy Sings In The Timber breaks down the intersection of Indigenous Justice and innocence work, announces programmatic expansion
Joseph Jefferson-Dust responds to hearing that ended probation, indicated exoneration
How to apply for MTIP’s legal services
MTIP client Kelly Worthan reflects on first semester of college from prison
