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Children in Adult Prison

Child Arrested and Charged with Felony for Science Experiment
May 3, 2013
Sixteen-year-old Kiera Wilmot was working on a science project at Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida, before school last Monday when she went...
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EJI Wins New Sentencing for 14-Year-Old Who Was Sentenced to Die in Prison
April 26, 2013
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Kuntrell Jackson, who was originally sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for an offense at...
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Delaware Teen Originally Sentenced to Die in Prison to Be Released
April 5, 2013
Lawrence Johnson, who was sentenced to die in prison in Delaware for his minor role in a robbery-murder when he was just 16 years old, received a...
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Death Penalty

Florida Passes Law to Increase Execution Rate
May 10, 2013
On April 29, 2013, the Florida Senate sent Governor Rick Scott a bill that would speed up appeals in cases where the death penalty has been imposed...
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EJI Wins New Trial for Alabama Death Row Inmate Jeffery Riggs
May 7, 2013
On Friday, May 3, 2013, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Jeffery Riggs's capital murder conviction and death sentence and ordered a...
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Maryland Abolishes the Death Penalty
May 2, 2013
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley today signed into law a bipartisan measure that abolishes capital punishment in the State of Maryland, making it...
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Prisons and Sentencing Reform

Tutwiler Prison Ranked One of Nation's Ten Worst Prisons
May 14, 2013
Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, has been ranked as one of the ten worst prisons in the country.
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Gun Regulation Fails While Gun Violence in Alabama Remains High
April 23, 2013
Gun control measures failed in the United States Senate last week despite polls showing that nine in ten Americans support expanded background...
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New Report Finds that More Significant Reform Efforts Needed to Reduce Mass Incarceration
April 19, 2013
A group of researchers, analysts, and advocates focused on ending mass incarceration in the United States issued a paper this week that concludes...
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Race and Poverty

EJI's History of Racial Injustice Highlight: The Death Penalty
April 30, 2013
George Stinney, before he was executed at age 14 by the State of South Carolina in 1944 (AP Photo/South Carolina Department of Archives and History...
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Gun Regulation Fails While Gun Violence in Alabama Remains High
April 23, 2013
Gun control measures failed in the United States Senate last week despite polls showing that nine in ten Americans support expanded background...
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Lowndes County at Bottom in Statewide Health Rankings
April 11, 2013
County Health Rankings released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute show that Lowndes...
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