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EJI Calls on Alabama DOC to Remove Warden of St. Clair Prison After Another Prisoner Is Murdered

Memphis Cotton Gin Boss Threatens Black Worker with Hanging for Drinking from Racially Segregated Water Fountain

Poll Finds Most Americans Prefer Life Imprisonment Over Death Penalty

Racial Profiling

Bryan Stevenson Testifies Before Congress on Need for Sentencing Reform

Supreme Court Reinforces Ban on Executing the Intellectually Disabled

All But One of the Hundreds of Kids Sent to Adult Court by Chicago Prosecutors Are Children of Color

Louisiana Man Released After 34 Years in Prison; New Orleans DA Admits Prosecutorial and Police Misconduct

Appeals Court Orders New Trial For Alabama Death Row Inmate William Ziegler

Federal Court Finds Miller Retroactive and Orders New Sentencing for Minnesota Teen

National Research Council Finds Mass Incarceration "Not Serving the Country Well"

Jim Crow Laws

Questions About Death Penalty in America Raised By Botched Execution in Oklahoma

National Academy of Sciences Study Shows High Rate of Innocence Among People Sentenced to Death

Alabama Towns and Private Probation Company Turn “Poverty Into A Prison Sentence”

EJI Celebrates the Life and Triumph of Rubin Carter