2025年3月6日 · 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 people in American society. We’ve earned a perfect score from Charity Navigator.

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 groundbreaking reports, an award-winning calendar, and short films that explore our nation’s history of racial injustice.

EJI advocates for parole reform, challenges mandatory minimum sentences and habitual offender statutes, and addresses the collateral consequences of incarceration for families and communities.

Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.

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 Freedom Monument Sculpture Park.

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 have been enhanced by dedicated, committed, and knowledgeable staff who joined EJI to make the experience of our sites meaningful and unforgettable.

EJI has been challenging the death penalty for more than 30 years. We represent people who have been sentenced to death and have won relief for over 130 people. We advocate across the globe and build support for abolition with projects like Just Mercy.

2025年1月27日 · “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.”

EJI’s reports document our history of racial injustice as well as discrimination and abusive sentences in the criminal justice system.

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 terrorized by white mobs and individuals who were shielded from arrest and prosecution.