News Archives

Federal Lawsuit Seeks to End Modern-Day Debtors’ Prison in Arkansas (ACLU, August 23, 2016)

       Complaint re Civil Rights Lawsuit Challenging Debtors' Prison in Sherwood, Arkansas 
       (August 23, 2016)

The Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row (The New Yorker, August 22, 2016)

Justice Department Says Poor Can’t Be Held When They Can’t Afford Bail (NBC News, August 19, 2016)

US DOJ Amicus Brief, Walker v City of Calhoun, GA, August 18, 2016

Black lives and the police (The New York Review of Books, August 18, 2016 Issue)

EJI Announces Plans to Build Museum and National Lynching Memorial (Equal Justice Initiative, August 16, 2016)

How Bad Prosecutors Cause Bad Policing (Slate, August 16, 2016)

The Horror of the Baltimore Police Department (The Atlantic, August 10, 2016)

Michael Barrett’s letter to Gov. Jay Nixon on public defenders (Missouri State Public Defender, August 2, 2016)

Ferguson: As It Unfolded (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 2016)

Beyond #BlackLivesMatter: police reform must be bolstered by legal action (The Guardian, July 27, 2016)