About FFWC
Our Mission
At Families and friends, we are dedicated to ensure that justice is provided to all those wrongfully convicted or incarcerated and that each person receives justice, equality and fairness in the criminal justice system.
Moments That Matter : FFWC In Action
About US
FFWC Has Played a Leadership Role in Criminal Justice Reform in New York
We have worked closely with advocates, legal organizations and legislators over the past 10 years to enact criminal justice reform. These include seeking to mandate the recording of all custodial interrogations of suspects from the time they are in police custody, as well as ensure police conduct double blind police line ups to prevent witness misidentification.
We have held numerous news conferences and provided testimony before the New York City Council and NYS Legislature seeking criminal justice reform, including laws to prevent prosecutorial misconduct, bail reform, discovery reform, sentencing reform measures and parole reform.
We worked closely with journalists and editorial writers, filmmakers, podcast producers and educators in promoting legislation and helping them to frame the issues surrounding wrongful convictions causes and remedies.
We successfully helped to pass legislation that mandates law enforcement agencies statewide to video record interrogations of people accused of serious non-drug felonies, such as homicides and violent sex offenses. The requirement applies to all custodial interrogations that occur in police stations, correctional facilities, prosecutors’ offices and holding areas. Failure to record interrogations in such cases could result in a court determining that a confession is inadmissible as evidence.
