Children in Adult Prison

May 1, 2009
On April 30, 2009, a California appeal court struck down a life imprisonment without parole sentence imposed on Antonio Nunez, a 14-year-old child...
April 8, 2009
Photo by Steve Liss The Equal Justice Initiative recently filed challenges in several states to sentences to life imprisonment without possibility...
April 7, 2009
Kenneth Frazier (left) won the release of James "Bo" Cochran, who spent 19 years on Alabama's death row for a crime he did not commit.
February 25, 2009
The United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument next week in Caperton v. Massey about whether West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent...
February 5, 2009
Photo by Steve Liss In oral argument at the Delaware Supreme Court in Dover on February 4, 2009, EJI's Bryan Stevenson argued that the court should...
February 3, 2009
The United States Supreme Court has asked the State of Florida to respond to EJI's petition in the case of Joe Sullivan, who was convicted for a...
January 9, 2009
EJI's largest funder, the JEHT Foundation, will shut down at the end of this month and will not be able to provide grants committed to EJI for the...
December 16, 2008
Joe Sullivan, now 31 and confined to a wheelchair, was sentenced to die in prison for an offense that happened when he was 13. Attorneys from EJI...
November 18, 2008
Click here for video Phillip Shaw is a free man today. He was released from prison in Missouri after his conviction and sentence to life...
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