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• Criminal Justice Activist Shaka Senghor on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday

  Posted on March 18, 2016

  Oprah recently interviewed criminal justice activist Shaka Senghor as part of her SuperSoul Sunday series. Shaka spent nineteen years in prison for […]

• Life After Thirty Years in Prison

  Posted on March 16, 2016

  A recent article from The Crime Report details one man’s experiences re-entering society after thirty years behind bars. The article is the […]

• Florida Revises Death Penalty

  Posted on March 14, 2016

  Last week, Florida governor Rick Scott signed a bill into law that prevents judges from overruling juries’ recommendations for life imprisonment and […]

• Rise in Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Juvenile Detention Facilities

  Posted on March 8, 2016

  A recent article by the Equal Justice Initiative reports on a study published by the Justice Department that found that allegations of […]

• EJI Receives $1 Million from Google.org

  Posted on March 1, 2016

  On February 26th, the USA Today reported that Google.org, the philanthropic sector of Google, is giving $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative. […]

• After More than 40 Years Albert Woodfox Was Released from Prison

  Posted on February 24, 2016

  This week the New York Times reported that a man had been released from prison after spending many years in solitary confinement. Albert Woodfox […]

• Record-Breaking Number of Exonerations in 2015

  Posted on February 17, 2016

  The Equal Justice Initiative published an article yesterday that examined the record-breaking number of exonerations in the United States in 2015. The […]

• Stories of Federal Prison Inmates

  Posted on February 10, 2016

  In the first few weeks of February, the popular photo blog Humans of New York has featured photographs and stories of federal […]

• Prisoner Re-Entry Event

  Posted on February 4, 2016

  On February 10th, 2016, the Morgridge Center for Public Service and Madison-area Urban Ministry are teaming up to put on an event […]

• Federal Sentencing Reform

  Posted on January 21, 2016

  The Equal Justice Initiative recently profiled four bills that impact federal sentencing in the United States. The following blog post will outline […]