And this spring, in Montgomery, Alabama, EJI opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, built on the grounds of a former warehouse where enslaved people were imprisoned, in the capital of what was once among the largest slave-owning states in America. Along with his EJI staff, Stevenson has obtained reversals, relief or release for more than 125 wrongfully convicted prisoners on death row. Supreme Court, successfully arguing that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for minors aged 17 and under were unconstitutional. Bryan Stevenson, an acclaimed public interest attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, has committed his life to justice - and especially to the task of closing the gap between how the criminal justice system operates for poor people and people of color, and America's purported ideal of equal justice for all.īut for more than 30 years, Stevenson has embarked on a mission to try.
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