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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

EJI Wins New Trial for Alabama Death Row Inmate

Justice Department Finds Excessive Force by Albuquerque Police Department Unconstitutional

EJI Recognized for Human Rights Activism Challenging Poverty and Racial Discrimination

The Superpredator Myth, 25 Years Later

West Virginia Abolishes Death in Prison Sentences for Children

Forced Internment of Japanese Americans

Execution Secrecy Laws Struck Down in Oklahoma and Texas