January 9, 2013
Studies examining lead exposure show that higher childhood blood lead levels are consistently associated with higher adult arrest rates for violent...
December 17, 2012
Marsha Colby, pictured with one of her children, after leaving Tutwiler Prison last week
Marsha Colby was released from prison last week, in time...
November 28, 2012
The 2012 Smithsonian magazine American Ingenuity Award winners, including EJI Director Bryan Stevenson, will be presented trophies at a special...
November 26, 2012
Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Kim Thomas announced last week that inmates at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, will no...
November 9, 2012
Following EJI reports on continuing problems at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, the Alabama Department of Corrections has replaced...
November 7, 2012
Proposition 36, which limits California's "Three Strikes" law to people convicted of violent crimes, saving the cash-strapped state over $100...
November 5, 2012
Bryan Stevenson was awarded the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award on November 3, 2012, in Birmingham, Alabama.(Frank Couch/fcouch@al.com)...
October 25, 2012
David Wayne Acra was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment because he was too poor to obtain a place to live upon his release from custody - a practice...
October 8, 2012
EJI reported on continuing problems at Tutwiler Prison for Women on Friday at a meeting of the Alabama Commission on Girls and Women in the Criminal...
October 2, 2012
On September 25, the Council of State Governments released a policy brief profiling a number of states that have succeeded in significantly...
