May 23, 2012
Tutwiler Prison for Women, where the rate of sexual assaults on inmates is among the worst in the country. Photo by Robin Nelson.
Today, the Equal...
March 30, 2012
At its annual benefit dinner on March 26, 2012, EJI honored founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman (above),...
February 29, 2012
Last week, more than 50 media outlets across the country raised critical questions about Alabama prison officials' recent decision to ban...
February 13, 2012
Last year, Alabama officials banned prisoners from reading the Pulitzer prize-winning history, Slavery by Another Name, at Kilby Correctional...
November 29, 2011
A new investigative report published by The Huffington Post has generated national attention about guard-on-inmate violence in Alabama prisons. Last...
November 18, 2011
The Justice Department announced today that Scottie T. Glenn, a former correctional officer at Ventress Prison in Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal...
November 14, 2011
The State of Alabama continues to deny the right to vote to citizens who have served and completed sentences for felony convictions. Alabama's...
October 18, 2011
The Alabama Attorney General has announced that former correctional lieutenant Michael Anthony Smith was arrested today for the murder of inmate...
September 26, 2011
Kilby Correctional Facility in Mt. Meigs, Alabama, has violated the civil rights of an inmate by prohibiting him from receiving Slavery by Another...
August 8, 2011
Today, EJI is calling for the immediate criminal prosecution of Alabama correctional officers who brutally beat a 24-year-old man to death one year...
