Author: Southern Center for Human Rights
2021 Legislative Preview
This week, the Georgia General Assembly convened and met for the first four of the…
READ MORE >Incarcerated in GA During COVID-19? We Want Your Story to be Heard. In Your Own Words.
COVID-19 has killed people in prisons and jails at three times the already alarming rate…
READ MORE >Statement from the Southern Center for Human Rights Regarding the Events of January 6th at the United States Capitol
As people marched in the streets of Atlanta this summer to protest for Black lives,…
READ MORE >The Cause of Justice is Always Urgent
Most of us have never lived through a year like 2020 before. This has been a year of omnipresent tragedy and uncounted acts of heroism, of the most astonishing failures of governmental leadership and the most inspiring collective demands for racial justice.
READ MORE >An End of Year Message from SCHR Board Chair James Kwak
Dear Friends of the Southern Center for Human Rights, Most of us have never lived…
READ MORE >Encourage Your Legislators to Attend Southern Center for Human Rights’ Legislative Institute!
We know that Georgians care about making our state’s criminal legal systems fairer, smarter, more…
READ MORE >Curtis Flowers’ Legal Team to be Honored by SCHR
On Wednesday, November 11, the Southern Center for Human Rights will host our 24th Annual…
READ MORE >Statement on Abuses Occurring at Irwin County Detention Center
Dawn Wooten, a whistleblowing nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center, reported last month that a doctor at the facility performed involuntary hysterectomies and other sterilization…
READ MORE >Take Action: Tell the City of Atlanta to #DropTheCharges
While city officials across the country have made the decision to drop criminal charges for…
READ MORE >Halfway Home, Half a Chance
The Covid-19 pandemic has made clear that jails and prisons are not as separate from…
READ MORE >We Take Injustice Personally
Each of us at SCHR has our own stories about why we choose this work, and we carry these stories with us in everything that we do. Our histories, our values, our lived experiences motivate us on the really hard days.
READ MORE >Black Lives Matter, Today and Always
The horrifying events of the last few weeks — lynchings of Black people, at the…
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