About Wikifactum
About Us
In 2020, the United States had over 2.5 million inmates, and it is estimated that 120,000 or more of these are innocent people who have been sentenced to dozens or even a hundred or more years.
The idea behind our site came from an editorial in the brilliant British prison newspaper, Inside Time, which Whyte received monthly while incarcerated through the British charity Prisoners Abroad. Whyte sought advice from other interested readers of the newspaper at the Butner Institution’s library on how to set up a similar organization. Comments were that he must do better by developing the Truth in Justice Project for others, male or female, who believed they had been wrongly convicted due to investigative, prosecutorial and judicial injustice.
Following his return home to Canada in 2020, Whyte began Wikifactum website for other victims of the US justice system.
Insignificant files related to Whyte’s case have not been included on Wikifactum’s site, even though they are identified in his sub-file listing. Only files concerning the wrongdoing of investigators, prosecutors, or defense attorneys are included. Likewise for all future vault holders, their files will follow the same guidelines. A relevant compendium of Whyte’s files can be accessed for review on the cloud.
Whyte’s original intention was to develop a forum for his family to shed light on his unjust conviction in 2017 and his incarceration. Whyte was not seeking sympathy, but simply a ritual of justice by broadcasting facts about the nefarious orchestration of the federal justice in the United States system by persons in authority and officers of the courts. The reality is becoming more obvious, as his situation pales in comparison to that of so many other inmates who have been unjustly convicted and incarcerated for decades.
Whyte recognizes that visitors to Wikifactum site may be interested in what can happen to others, but human nature being what it is, few will care once the browser has closed. Those who are interested can read this lengthy form with Wikifactum’s introduction, which encourages reader participation on the site. Likewise, the victims of such injustices care, but most only want to put the traumatic events behind their families and themselves and move on with their lives.
As expected of a legal factum, truth, among other prerequisites such as facts, legitimacy, exactness, accuracy, precision, veracity, fidelity, devotion and honesty, should form the basis on which a judge or jury should make a determination as to the guilt or innocence of an accused person. All too frequently, that is not the case.
The Wikifactum website of the Truth in Justice Project aims to create a reliable encyclopaedia of information to address the injustices inherent in the US federal justice system. Frequently, just as in “fake news,” government allegations as revealed to the media should not be relied upon as the truth.
The Wikifactum website is dedicated to humanitarian, social and philosophical issues surrounding the human factors involved in investigating, running and overseeing the judicial system. Based on the principles of a wiki, subject to permission from the project administrators, this online editing system explores a wide range of subjects in the justice system. It uses the tools provided by the project website to provoke or promote a realistic sense of justice that may have been denied to those persons investigated, indicted, convicted and sentenced to a term in a federal facility.
