On January 3, 2025, the DOJ reached a proposed consent decree with Fulton County and the Fulton County Sheriff, which was subsequently approved by a judge through a court order.
The 2025-2026 biennial Georgia legislative session has officially begun! The Southern Center for Human Rights is committed to decriminalizing race and poverty in America’s Deep South. Our policy priorities this session reflects that commitment.
This year’s timeline is a testament to what we can achieve together.
On November 14, 2024, the Department of Justice released findings from its 15-month long investigation into the living conditions and treatment of incarcerated persons at the Fulton County Jail.
The Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) announced today that records obtained from a November 1, 2024 Open Records Request reveal that the scope of services in Mayor Andre Dickens’s special procurement for diversion services is nearly identical in the scope proposed by the Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative (PAD) in its winning bid to provide mobile response services in Atlanta.
Requiring incarceration in Georgia prisons, which fail to afford the most basic human rights to incarcerated people, serves no one.
The Southern Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and the Center for Constitutional Rights are proud to announce its inaugural live-streamed virtual fundraiser, Rep-A-Thon, scheduled for May 4th, 2024, from noon until 6:00 PM.
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.
For the past two decades, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR), along with Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL), and others have worked tirelessly to change a law that puts people with intellectual disability at greater risk of execution than any other state.
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