![]() ![]() And in 2018, we opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice as part of our national effort to create new spaces, markers, and memorials that address the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, which shapes many issues today.ĮJI provides research and recommendations to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of criminal justice reform. EJI produces groundbreaking reports, an award-winning calendar, and short films that explore our nation’s history of racial injustice. ![]() ![]() We are committed to changing the narrative about race in America. We challenge the death penalty and excessive punishment and we provide re-entry assistance to formerly incarcerated people.ĮJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. ![]() Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer and bestselling author of Just Mercy, EJI is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons. ![]()
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