He served 11 years inside the
New York State prison system for something he didn’t do.

Orlando Peña  |  Founder

InmateResearch.com

Orlando Peña was 16 years old when the system made its first mistake. At that age, he never dreamed of being in a courtroom. He grew up like most kids do, with a family, a neighborhood, and a future he had not yet imagined. And then one day, that future was taken from him. Falsely identified and accused of a crime he did not commit, he was taken from his family and sent first to Rikers Island, then through a succession of prisons across Upstate New York. Inside those walls, he watched a jailhouse lawyer helping people. They became friends. And one day, that man asked him why he was there. He told him his story and the jailhouse lawyer decided to help. He asked for nothing in return except a promise. Never come back as an inmate. Spend whatever years you have left making sure other families do not spend theirs the way you spent yours.

He made that promise 28 years ago. He has never come close to breaking it. He has never forgotten what it felt like to need someone and hear nothing back.

He knows what the silence from an attorney's office sounds like. Not because he read about it. Because his family lived it. He knows what it costs a family to be ignored, not just financially, but in the way hope quietly leaves a room when no one calls back. He remembers every single day.

That is why every family that reaches InmateResearch.com is treated with the urgency he once needed and never received. Every document is read by a man who has stood on both sides of those walls; not studied them, not read about them, but stood in them. That is not something any law firm can put on a business card.

Inmate Research & Analytics. Fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Serving families of every background in all 50 states.

Orlando Peña tenía dieciséis años cuando lo llevaron a Rikers Island. Pasó los siguientes 11 años en el sistema penitenciario del Estado de Nueva York por algo que no hizo. Adentro, un abogado de prisión lo ayudó a luchar para volver a casa con una condición: prometer que nunca regresaría, y que dedicaría su vida a ayudar a otros que aún estaban adentro. Eso fue hace más de 28 años. Nunca ha roto esa promesa.

A principios de sus treinta, Orlando regresó a Rikers como empleado. Estar de pie en los mismos pasillos donde una vez estuvo como un adolescente asustado le recordó exactamente por qué hace este trabajo. Él sabe lo que se siente ser olvidado cuando el sistema te ignora, cuando los abogados nunca devuelven las llamadas. Él lo vivió. Lo recuerda cada día.

Por eso ningún caso es solo un número para él. Cada familia es tratada de la manera en que Orlando deseó que alguien hubiera tratado a la suya con urgencia, con honestidad, y con la creencia de que nadie merece ser olvidado. Cada documento es leído por un hombre que ha estado en ambos lados de esas paredes. Eso no es algo que encontrará en un bufete de abogados.

Investigación y Análisis. Completamente bilingüe en inglés y español. Con sede en Elizabeth, Nueva Jersey. Sirviendo a familias de todos los orígenes en los 50 estados.