Equal Justice Initiative
EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the U.S., challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable …
About EJI - Equal Justice Initiative
EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. We are committed to changing the narrative about race in America. EJI produces …
Criminal Justice Reform - Equal Justice Initiative
EJI advocates for parole reform, challenges mandatory minimum sentences and habitual offender statutes, and addresses the collateral consequences of incarceration for families and …
Our Team - Equal Justice Initiative
EJI is proud to employ dozens of talented people who staff our Legacy Museum, National Memorial, and our gift shops and ticket office. Operations of our new museum and memorial …
The Legacy Sites
Aug 6, 2024 · “EJI has created a place where art is a portal through which visitors can see, contemplate and begin to understand the history of Black trauma in the United States.”
Bryan Stevenson - Equal Justice Initiative
Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated …
Prison Conditions - Equal Justice Initiative
EJI is confronting the nation’s most deadly and overcrowded prison system by investigating, documenting, and filing federal lawsuits and complaints about conditions in Alabama’s prisons. …
Get Involved - Equal Justice Initiative
Visit EJI's Legacy Sites . Come to Montgomery, Alabama, for an immersive journey through American history at the Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and …
Racial Justice
EJI has documented nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people by white mobs between 1865 and 1876. Thousands more were attacked, sexually assaulted, and …
About - The Legacy Sites
About EJI As a nonprofit law office founded by Bryan Stevenson in 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative represents clients sentenced to death and condemned to die in prison, challenges …