In his article on Bryan Stevenson, Matthew Odom describes Stevenson's founding of the Equal Justice Initiative and how it has contributed to the benefit of the incarcerated. The Equal Justice Initiative is a nonprofit organization in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to helping prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes. The EJI has been an active organization for 30 years, overturning wrongful convictions and unjust sentences by exposing official misconduct and racial bias. To understand the impact of Stevenson's efforts, it is mentioned that, “As the Founder and Director of EJI, Stevenson has concentrated on ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the US” (Odom para 3). This citation shows Stevenson's focus on ending
