• Represents those confined to prisons and jails in class action law suits
challenging inhuman conditions of confinement, degrading or discriminatory treatment,
denial of medical and mental health care, and other constitutional violations;
• Recruits and provides materials and advice to lawyers engaged in challenges to
prison and jail conditions;
• Increases public awareness of civil and human rights violations in the prisons
and jails of the South by documenting those violations and providing that documentation to
the media, interested groups and government bodies;
