August 15, 2012
The Justice Department announced last week that officials in the city of Meridian, Mississippi, are operating a "school-to-prison pipeline" that...
July 18, 2012
A judge in Alabama last week ordered the Harpersville Municipal Court to stop jailing people who cannot pay speeding tickets and the extra fees...
July 11, 2012
It is illegal to jail people because they are too poor to pay a fine, but as local authorities and private probation companies face mounting pressure...
April 18, 2012
Raw sewage outside a home in Lowndes County, Alabama
Residents in poor rural communities are searching for solutions to a longstanding problem...
April 5, 2012
The February 26th shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has sparked shock, outrage, and action across the state of Florida and the nation, and...
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...
February 6, 2012
Bryan Stevenson testifies in Fayetteville, NC
North Carolina attorneys have begun presenting evidence in the first hearing under the state's...
January 10, 2012
Residents of Uniontown, Alabama, in rural Perry County filed a civil rights complaint last week against the Alabama Department of Environmental...
