In April 2019, the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Georgia Advocacy Office filed a lawsuit on behalf of women with serious mental illness held in torturous conditions of solitary confinement in the South Fulton Jail in Union City, Georgia.
Community input urged amid fast-paced approval process conducted without community input.
The public policy unit traveled to Southeast Georgia for fieldwork to meet with current partners and to strengthen and build relationships to support our work in a range of areas, including, but not limited to youth justice through JUSTGeorgia, the establishment of the Southeast chapter of the Justice Reform Partnership, the expansion of JusticeWatch Georgia, and planning for the 2026 legislative session.
Welcome to The Indignant South—a new digital space by the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) built for reflection, reaction, and visioning justice in the Deep South.
Universal air conditioning in prisons is not a luxury; it’s a human right.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is deeply grateful that HB 123 has been signed into law and will protect those with intellectual disability from being sentenced to death.
Passed in 2024, SB 63 exacerbates a two-tiered bail system where wealth determines who walks free and who languishes in jail.
Danyel Smith was convicted 20 years ago of the murder of his son, Chandler, based on a now discredited diagnosis of “shaken baby syndrome.”
We are deeply grateful to have worked alongside so many advocates to block harmful proposals and support positive ones.
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