Social Justice Issues
ACLU Issue: "Mass Incarceration": a fact sheet on the primary issue of mass incarceration; other related topics can be researched on the same site
Equal Justice Initiative : Bryan Stevenson's non-profit organization
Southern Poverty Law Center: non-profit organization that seeks to uphold the civil rights of marginalized populations (prisoners, children, immigrants) through legal representation and education
Capital Punishment
Death Penalty Information Center: Organization that provides statistics, analysis, and other useful information concerning capital punishment
Amnesty International: US Death Penalty Facts
Capital Punishment: New York Times articles on the topic of capital punishment
Wrongful Convictions
Causes of Wrongful Convictions: University of Michigan Law page on causes of wrongful conviction
Innocence Project: the organization's goal is to exonerate wrongfully convicted persons through DNA testing
Here is PBS NewsHour's discussion of the issues considered in life without parole sentences for juvenile murder convicts, posted to YouTube on March 20, 2012.