Equal Justice Initiative

Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, and located in Montgomery, Alabama, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) is a legal advocacy organization that sees eliminating racial bias and discrimination against the poor, incarcerated, and condemned in America’s criminal-justice system and society more broadly as central to their work.

EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. EJI pursues these aims through four connected areas of work: Criminal Justice Reform, Anti-Poverty, Racial Justice, and Public Education. EJI provides legal representation for those illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons, challenges the death penalty and excessive punishment, and provides re-entry assistance to formerly incarcerated people. EJI also works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment in the criminal-legal system, and is committed to changing the narrative about race in America by exploring our nation’s history of racial injustice.

To support efforts related to the issue of juvenile life without parole.

To support efforts related to the issue of juvenile life without parole.