Ingrid Lotts traveled four hours, from Yakima to the central branch of the Seattle Public Library, to thank the man who’d given hope to her imprisoned husband.
The man who offered hope was Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit based in Montgomery, Ala., that provides pro-bono legal representation nationwide to inmates, people of color and poor defendants denied access to fair representation. Since founding EJI in 1989, Stevenson and his team of attorneys have challenged sentences of death and life without parole for numerous minors. ...