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...
December 3, 2010
Tutwiler Prison, Alabama
The United States Supreme Court on November 30, 2010, heard oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. Plata about whether a...
November 9, 2010
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld a ruling by a circuit court judge which struck down part of Alabama’s sex offender statute, the...
October 18, 2010
The United States Supreme Court on October 6, 2010, heard oral argument in Connick v. Thompson, in which the Court will decide whether a man who was...
August 22, 2010
A new study led by the Brennan Center for Justice has documented how the enormous rise in judicial campaign spending over the last decade threatens...
July 26, 2010
From The Economist
Mass incarceration in the United States continues at record high levels despite outsized costs. According to recent data...
April 5, 2010
Bryan Stevenson, right, on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
On April 2, 2010, EJI's Bryan Stevenson discussed the status of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...
March 25, 2010
EJI staff with honoree Diane Jones, second from left.
On March 23, 2010, EJI honored George Kendall, Director of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey's...
March 18, 2010
In 2009, Alabama increased its prison population to over 31,000 people. That same period saw the state prison population nationwide decline for the...
February 2, 2010
Marsha Colby, pictured with two of her six children in 1997, prior to being falsely accused of killing her seventh child at birth.
Capital murder...
