KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City-based organization working to overturn wrongful convictions receives a $1 million donation from Team Roc.
Team Roc is the philanthropic arm of Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation.
Midwest Innocence Project (MIP) works to free wrongfully convicted people in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
The group was founded from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
The organization's advocates helped free local Ricky Kidd and are ready to help Kevin Strickland's case for acquittal.
MIP was linked to Roc Nation in recent weeks when the entertainment company requested an investigation into the Kansas City, Kansas, police department.
Roc Group claims the police filed a lawsuit saying the KCKPD failed to turn over documents that could show officer misconduct.
The group also took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post against the KCKPD and called on federal officials to launch an investigation.
He was accused of rape, murder, sex trafficking and corruption within the department.
This letter was co-signed by MIP.
It was not immediately clear how the MIP would allocate the funding.
