A recent NPR story, “Why aren’t there more higher ed programs behind bars?” by Eric Westervelt, highlights the Prison University Project (PUP) […]
The Class of 2019 was welcomed today at the Chancellor’s Convocation, held at the Kohl Center. This year’s theme was “Be the […]
Many of the cases Bryan Stevenson describes in Just Mercy deal with juveniles being convicted as adults, even at the ages of […]
A recent New York Times article, “Solitary Confinement: Punished for Life,” by Erica Goode, profiles the work of Craig Haney, a professor […]
At the end of July, the U.S. Department of Education announced that some incarcerated Americans will once again have the opportunity to […]
President Obama recently became the first president to visit a federal prison while in office. Wisconsin Public Radio host, Joy Cardin, held […]
The recent Los Angeles Times article “Civil rights lawyer seeks to commemorate another side of southern heritage: Lynchings” profiles Bryan Stevenson and the Equal […]
This week, on July 7th, the Equal Justice Initiative released an animated film Slavery to Mass Incarceration. The film is narrated by […]
On Saturday, June 27th, at the annual American Library Association conference, Bryan Stevenson was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for nonfiction for […]
One of the focuses of Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative’s work is helping the poor in the United States criminal […]