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Confederate Flag Removed from South Carolina State House

Alabama Death Row Prisoner Carlos Kennedy Wins New Trial

Placement of Children in Adult Jails and Prisons Is Challenged

Study Finds 95 Percent of Prosecutors Are White

EJI Wins Ruling in Virginia That Juveniles Must Be Given a Meaningful Opportunity for Release

Connecticut Abolishes Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences

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Supreme Court Justices Raise Questions About the Constitutionality of the Death Penalty

"Just Mercy" Wins Carnegie Medal for Best Nonfiction

Arkansas Supreme Court Holds Miller v. Alabama Is Retroactive

Justice Kennedy Condemns Solitary Confinement

EJI's Race and Poverty Project Intensifies in Response to Charleston Shootings

Supreme Court Holds Louisiana Man Sentenced to Death Is Entitled to Hearing on Intellectual Disability

Supreme Court Holds Texas Can Reject Confederate Flag License Plates

Texas Man Is 154th Person Exonerated and Released from Death Row in the U.S.

Fatal Police Shootings in Florida on the Rise