Bryan Stevenson

Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative

Bryan Stevenson appears in the following:

Does Our Criminal Justice System Treat the Rich and Guilty Better Than the Poor and Innocent?

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, on why he feels that the poor, wrongly condemned, and women and children can too often get lost in our criminal justice system. 

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Will Holder's New Policy on Drug Sentences Transform Criminal Justice?

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

As Attorney General Eric Holder made clear in a speech yesterday, drug sentencing about to change. Mandatory minimums revolutionized the justice system, so how will Holder's new guide...

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Supreme Court Bans Life without Parole for Juveniles

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children under 17-years-old are unconstitutional. Bryan Stevenson, an attorney and the founder of th...

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Fighting Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System

Monday, April 16, 2012

In March, the Supreme Court heard one of the most widely anticipated cases of this term. In two related cases, Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs, human rights attorney Bryan Stev...

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