The Center's Efforts
to Protect
Human Rights
in Prisons and Jails
“Open Records Act” Lawsuit Challenges Corrections Commissioner’s Refusal
to Disclose Public Records About Deaths & Violence in AL Prisons
Women's
Health & Welfare at Macon Diversion Center Come Second to Collection of
Fines & Fees
Ronda Cross Scott Released
from Prison
Poverty keeps woman jailed; Day job off-site not enough for expenses and
$705 fine
Clinch County Superior Court Imposes Illegal Sentence on Former County
Commissioner
Women
Prisoners Contend State of Alabama is in Contempt of Federal Court
Order over Tutwiler Prison
No
More “Room and Board” Fees For Pre-Trial Detainees at the Clinch County
Jail
Department
of Corrections Sued for Dangerous and Poor Conditions for Elderly,
Disabled, and Severely Ill Prisoners
Motion For Contempt Filed On Behalf Of HIV-Positive Inmates at Limestone
Correctional Facility
Emergency Motion for a Temporary
Restraining Order filed on
behalf of Prisoners at Lee Arrendale State Prison
King & Spalding, Southern Center for Human
Rights File Lawsuit
on Behalf of Pre-Trial Detainees Forced to Pay “Room and Board”
at the Clinch County Jail
Motion for contempt of court filed on
behalf of Prisoners at Lee Arrendale State Prison
Federal Court Orders Improved
Conditions and Medical Care for Women in Alabama's Prisons
Federal Judge recommends approval in
settlement agreement on behalf of HIV-Positive Inmates for Inadequate
Medical Care
Report Reveals Continuing Danger of Extremely Poor Medical Care for HIV
and AIDS Prisoners
Violence and Death in North Georgia:
18 Year-old Murdered at Lee Arrendale State Prison
Alabama DOC pays SCHR client $90,000 for injury suffered at Elmore
recycling facility
Report Recommends
Measures to Eliminate Overcrowding at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women
Report Reveals Disturbing Truth of Dangerous and Extremely Poor
Conditions for HIV and AIDS Prisoners
Georgia
prison sued for poor mental health care after sixth death
NaphCare and Alabama Sued for
Grossly Inadequate System of Providing Medical Care for Women Prisoners
Federal
judge finds Alabama jail like a 'slave ship,' orders immediate reduction
in population, other reforms
Court
orders end to brutality and inadequate medical care in Georgia's largest
county jail
Federal
court orders medication and medical care for HIV-positive inmates in the
Fulton County Jail in class action lawsuit brought by the Center
Georgia's prisoners win compensation
for abuse
U.S.
Penitentiary officials to pay $99,000 settlement in prison torture case
brought by Center's attorneys
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