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EJI is a private, nonprofit organisation that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI works with communities that have been marginalised by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. EJI also prepares reports, newsletters and manuals to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of criminal justice. EJI recently issued a report about 13- and 14-year-old children sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole in the U.S. in which it called for abolition of such sentences for young teens and contended these sentences violate the CRC as well as the U.S. Constitution.
