May 5, 2011
EJI Director Bryan Stevenson this week received the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. He was honored as one of twelve social innovators chosen for...
May 4, 2011
Photo by Steve Petteway,
Collection of the U.S. Supreme Court
EJI honored John Paul Stevens, retired Associate Justice of the United States...
March 3, 2011
EJI Rural Development Manager Catherine Coleman-Flowers testified before the United Nations Independent Expert on the Human Right to Water and...
February 25, 2011
EJI won a new trial for death row inmate Jason Sharp today when the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that the Madison County prosecutor...
February 22, 2011
According to a national study by the nonpartisan Justice at Stake Campaign and other organizations, candidates in Alabama's three Supreme Court races...
February 18, 2011
A Houston television station recently released a surveillance video in which Houston Police officers kick and punch a 15-year-old boy after he...
December 23, 2010
As a result of mass incarceration in Alabama, money that would otherwise be available for education is being used to pay for the state's increasing...
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...
October 14, 2010
The United States Census Bureau recently reported that, for the third year in a row, the number of people living in poverty in the United States...
