In this benefit episode of the Ideation Podcast, Bryan Stevenson, Founder/Executive Director of the Equal Justice Effort (EJI) and motivation for the current film Simply Grace, shares his stories and ideas on criminal justice reform, nerve, grace, and being affected by civil liberties heroes like Rosa Parks. This interview was initially tape-recorded backstage at Driver Conference in Atlanta a couple of years earlier. We believe Mr. Stevenson’s ideas are not just ageless however likewise prompt for the discussions we’re having today in our society around racial equity.
Under Mr. Stevenson’s management, EJI has actually won significant legal obstacles getting rid of extreme and unreasonable sentencing, exonerating innocent death row detainees, challenging abuse of the jailed and the psychologically ill, and assisting kids prosecuted as grownups.
Mr. Stevenson has actually argued and won numerous cases at the United States Supreme Court, consisting of a 2019 judgment safeguarding condemned detainees who struggle with dementia and a landmark 2012 judgment that prohibited compulsory life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences for all kids 17 or more youthful. Mr. Stevenson and his personnel have actually won turnarounds, relief, or release from jail for over 135 incorrectly condemned detainees on death row and won relief for numerous others mistakenly founded guilty or unjustly sentenced.
Mr. Stevenson has actually started significant brand-new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts that challenge inequality in America. He led the development of 2 extremely well-known cultural websites which opened in 2018: the Tradition Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. These brand-new nationwide landmark organizations chronicle the tradition of slavery, lynching, and racial partition, and the connection to mass imprisonment and modern problems of racial predisposition. Mr. Stevenson is likewise a Teacher of Law at the New York City University School of Law.
Handy Hyperlinks:
Equal Justice Effort – https://eji.org/
Bryan’s TED Talk – https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice
Simply Grace Motion Picture – https://www.justmercyfilm.com/
Ideation Hyperlinks:
Ideation Site: https://theideation.com/
Charles Lee’s Hyperlinks: https://linktr.ee/charlestlee
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