Film Summary:
\nIn the last half-century\, America has become the nation with the highest ra te of incarceration in the world\, has authorized the execution of hundred s of condemned prisoners\, and remains the only country with no minimum ag e of trying children as adults in the criminal justice system. Punitive pr actices disproportionately target and impact communities of color\, where more than half of the people on death row in this country are people of co lor. EJI believes that our failure to honestly confront our history of rac ial and economic injustice means that we struggle to truly practice &ldquo \;equal justice for all.&rdquo\;
\nFor more than three decades\, Ala bama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson\, Founder and Executive Dire ctor of the Equal Justice Initiative\, has advocated on behalf of the disa dvantaged\, the incarcerated\, and the condemned\, seeking to eradicate ra cial discrimination in the criminal justice system. True Justice: Bryan St evenson&rsquo\;s Fight for Equality offers an intimate portrait of this re markable man and is told primarily through his own words. The film chronic les Bryan Stevenson&rsquo\;s struggle to create greater fairness in the sy stem and to show how racial injustice emerged\, evolved\, and continues to threaten the country\, and it challenges viewers to join him in creating a new and brighter future.
\nFilm provided by Life Stories.
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