2024 San Francisco Benefit Reception

Please join the Southern Center for Human Rights for a benefit reception hosted by the family and friends of the late Susan Ten Kwan.

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The People’s Process

The People’s Process is a community-centered initiative modeled after international human rights input mechanisms. Events are designed to generate recommendations to end the human rights abuses documented in the Department of Justice’s report on the Fulton County Jail.

2024 Human Rights Report

Read the annual newsletter of the Southern Center for Human Rights.

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A System of Support: The Journey After Reentry

Since 2015, the Southern Center for Human Rights has helped more than 60 people be resentenced and released from prisons across the Deep South, over half of whom were sentenced to life without parole. Join Client Services Advocate Waleisah Wilson as she catches up with two of our reentry clients, Mr. William Adams and Mr. Danny Redding.

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Federal Judge Holds Georgia Department of Corrections Officials in Contempt

A federal court has issued an order holding Georgia prison officials in contempt for their persistent violations of a settlement agreement and court order designed to protect men in the Georgia Department of Corrections’ (GDC) Special Management Unit.

Death Penalty & Intellectual Disability: Legal Advocacy Toolkit

Death Penalty & Intellectual Disability: Legal Advocacy Toolkit

We have created a toolkit for advocates to use when educating their communities about intellectual disability law in Georgia and the road to reform.

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Southern Center for Human Rights First Amendment Lawyer Bridge Project Pairs 40+ Clients in the Fulton County “Cop City” RICO Indictment

The First Amendment Lawyer Bridge (“The Bridge”) is the formalized lawyer pairing project housed at SCHR that provides compensation to attorneys representing people arrested while exercising their First Amendment rights.

Equality. Dignity. Justice.

The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South.

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Frederick Douglass

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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