Reports

Our reports explore America’s history of racial injustice from enslavement and racial terror lynching to segregation and mass incarceration and reveal how that history shapes our criminal legal system today, from the death penalty and extreme sentencing of children in adult prisons to racially biased jury selection in America.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Slavery in America

The Montgomery Slave Trade

Reconstruction in America

Racial Violence after the Civil War

Lynching in America

Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror

Segregation in America

Unreliable Verdicts

Racial Bias and Wrongful Convictions

Discriminatory jury selection remains widespread—despite evidence that diverse juries reach more reliable verdicts.

Race and the Jury

Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

Documenting how racial bias in jury selection undermines fairness and reliability in our legal system.

Targeting Black Veterans

Lynching in America

Documents physical violence and social humiliation targeting Black veterans.

Cruel and Unusual

Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison

Documents 73 cases nationwide where children 13 and 14 years old were condemned to imprisonment until death.

All Children Are Children

Challenging Abusive Punishment of Juveniles

Follows EJI’s work to end the abusive treatment of children in the adult criminal justice system.

The Death Penalty in Alabama

Judge Override

Alabama is the only state where judges have routinely overridden jury verdicts of life to impose capital punishment.

Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

A Continuing Legacy

Our 2010 study of racial bias in jury selection since the Supreme Court’s decision in Batson v. Kentucky.