James McCloskey is a lay minister and founder of Centurion Ministries. In 1980, while studying to become an ordained minister at Princeton Theological Seminary McCloskey, did fieldwork at a prison. He met a man serving a life sentence for murder and who McCloskey believed was innocent. McCloskey took a leave from seminary to work on and win his case. McCloskey went on to found the innocence project Centurion Ministries. McCloskey's memor, "When Truth Is All You Have," was published in 2020.