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Coalition to Free Vernon Bateman

Coalition to Free Vernon Bateman

Exonerate an Innocent Man!

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    • Vernon T. Bateman
    • André Carson on Vernon
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    • “Ammunition for Healing”
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Indiana Continues Exploiting and Targeting Vernon T. Bateman

Coalition to Free Vernon T. BatemanFebruary 27, 2025March 28, 2025

New evidence requires Indiana immediately redress four of the many grave injustices to which they subjected Bateman.

“Breaking the Chains: Vernon’s Fight for Freedom”

Underdawg TalkFebruary 24, 2025March 28, 2025

Eric Jones Jr. interviews Vernon T. Bateman, exposing the reality of the injustice system and how to fight back.

16 Years of Transformation: Vernon T. Bateman Records the Moment

Indianapolis Liberation CenterFebruary 24, 2025February 24, 2025

Learn how Bateman struggled to transform himself as he faced decades in harsh prison conditions due to a wrongful conviction.

26 Years Too Long: Vernon’s Fight for Freedom

Indianapolis Liberation CenterFebruary 24, 2025April 1, 2025

The first in a series of short documentaries on the ongoing campaign to free Vernon T. Bateman.

About Vernon T. Bateman

Coalition to Free Vernon T. BatemanFebruary 16, 2025

About the artist, author, illustrator, community leader, and future exoneree.

Congressman Carson Calls for Clemency Review

André CarsonNovember 28, 2024February 27, 2025

André Carson calls denounces Bateman’s “punitively strict” parole, calls out “miscarriages of justice”

The State can’t Isolate the Imagination

Hampton InstituteMay 24, 2024February 24, 2025

Bateman’s story exemplifies the often unacknowledged resistance that flourishes behind prison bars, a creativity the state cannot repress.

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