Centurion Ministries
Show 702

No system is perfect. But is the number of innocent people in prison more than we can imagine? According to Kate Germond of Centurion Ministries, “There’s more people wrongfully convicted than people even dare to believe.”

This belief led Jim McCloskey (pictured, left) to establish the Princeton-based ministry. His life changed when he traded a lucrative career in international business for a stint in the seminary. As a student chaplain in a Trenton cell block, he met a man convicted of murder who convinced him he was innocent. Knowing there were thousands like him, McCloskey found his calling. Through Centurion Ministries, he has helped to release twenty five wrongfully-convicted and imprisoned men and women.

Clarence Moore is one of those prisoners fortunate enough to be aided by Centurion Ministries. Sentenced to twenty-five years to life for rape, he has already served fifteen years. Centurion Ministries mounted an appeal to overturn his conviction. But are Clarence and others like him a minority or victims of a far-reaching systemic problem within our judicial system? In the studio, Raymond Brown is joined by criminal defense lawyer Paul Casteleiro and former federal prosecutor and Superior Court judge Marianne Espinosa Murphy.