Category: Go Big Read 2015-2016: Just Mercy
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Shipping Inmates Out of State
Posted on April 20, 2016A recent article from The Marshall Project discusses the hardships that families go through as states are shipping parts of their inmate […]
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ASPIREist Features Clint Smith
Posted on April 18, 2016ASPIREist is a new half-hour reality feature news show. Each episode has three features ranging a wide variety of topics. The purpose […]
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Utah Abolishes Life without Parole Sentences for Children
Posted on April 4, 2016Earlier this year, South Dakota abolished life without parole sentences for children. Last week Utah passed similar legislation. The new law does […]
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Nixon’s “War on Drugs” was Founded on Racism
Posted on March 28, 2016Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative have focused their work on the unequally high incarceration rates of African Americans. They argue […]
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Criminal Justice Activist Shaka Senghor on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday
Posted on March 18, 2016Oprah recently interviewed criminal justice activist Shaka Senghor as part of her SuperSoul Sunday series. Shaka spent nineteen years in prison for […]
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Life After Thirty Years in Prison
Posted on March 16, 2016A recent article from The Crime Report details one man’s experiences re-entering society after thirty years behind bars. The article is the […]
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Florida Revises Death Penalty
Posted on March 14, 2016Last week, Florida governor Rick Scott signed a bill into law that prevents judges from overruling juries’ recommendations for life imprisonment and […]
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Rise in Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Juvenile Detention Facilities
Posted on March 8, 2016A recent article by the Equal Justice Initiative reports on a study published by the Justice Department that found that allegations of […]
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EJI Receives $1 Million from Google.org
Posted on March 1, 2016On February 26th, the USA Today reported that Google.org, the philanthropic sector of Google, is giving $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative. […]
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After More than 40 Years Albert Woodfox Was Released from Prison
Posted on February 24, 2016This week the New York Times reported that a man had been released from prison after spending many years in solitary confinement. Albert Woodfox […]
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Record-Breaking Number of Exonerations in 2015
Posted on February 17, 2016The Equal Justice Initiative published an article yesterday that examined the record-breaking number of exonerations in the United States in 2015. The […]
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Stories of Federal Prison Inmates
Posted on February 10, 2016In the first few weeks of February, the popular photo blog Humans of New York has featured photographs and stories of federal […]