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The Innocence Project exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustices. This site has a lot of information on cases they are working on. This site also has suggestions on how they are trying to reform the system to make it more efficient and just.

Story of restorative justice at work in a murder case in Florida. Highlights the impact on the victims and how much the process helped them in coping with their loss.

Should everything be provided equal to all? The criminal justice system reformation. Social justice is such a broad subject.

This sounds like extremely loaded wording and doesn't provide much fact at all. It's more a slandering and assertion of an opinion rather than a factual source. It could also be fairly offensive depending on who reads it.

Mandatory minimum sentences are the product of good intentions, but good intentions do not always make good policy; good results are also necessary. Recognizing this fact, there are public officials on both sides of the aisle who support amending some components of federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws.

This article talks about a poor person's chance at justice. 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of Gideon Vs. Wainwright and sadly, most are no longer getting the fair defense Clarence Earl Gideon received.

The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one - especially at a time when more and more Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when state governments confront enormous fiscal crises. Having a system that relies on mass incarceration to continue in order to make profits goes against the purpose of the criminal justice system.