Causes: Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Crime & Law, Public Interest Law, Unknown

Mission: Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama (EJI) is a nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance to indigent criminal defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment. EJI litigates on behalf of death row prisoners, juveniles, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective legal representation and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI established a race and poverty initiative that is designed to confront our nation's history of racial injustice and the way it continues to impact the national discourse on race and our criminal justice system.

Programs: Equal justice initiative of alabama (eji) is a non-profit organization that provides legal assistance to indigent criminal defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment. Eji litigates on behalf of death row prisoners, juveniles, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective legal representation and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. Eji works with communities who have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. Eji also provides training and prepares reports, litigation aids and public information to assist policy makers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of justice.