About the Equal Justice Initiative

The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. They are committed to changing the narrative about race in America. EJI produces groundbreaking reports, an award-winning wall calendar, and short films that explore the history of racial injustice in the United States, and they recently launched an ambitious national effort to create new spaces, markers, and memorials that address the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, which shapes many issues today.

EJI’s charity work is centered on Criminal Justice Reform. Mass incarceration disproportionately impacts the poor and people of color and is not shown to make citizens safer. EJI is working to end the national reliance on over-incarceration by challenging the death penalty, extreme sentences for children, excessive punishment, and abusive prison conditions through litigation, advocacy and education .