Author: Southern Center for Human Rights
SCHR Continues to Challenge LaGrange, GA, Policies That Restrict Access to Basic Utility Services
Charles Brewer, of LaGrange, suffers from serious sleep apnea and congestive heart failure. The 55-year…
READ MORE >Legislation Would Further Exacerbate Wealth-Based Detention in Georgia
Yesterday, following a three hour hearing on SB 452, the legislation passed out of the…
READ MORE >Newly Discovered Prosecutors’ Notes Reveal Blatant Race Discrimination in Capital Jury Selection
Today, the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Georgia Innocence Project filed a supplement…
READ MORE >Inadequate Medical Care in Prison Makes Headlines Again
A sick person in detention is entirely at the mercy of the prison or jail…
READ MORE >Alabama Botches Doyle Lee Hamm’s Execution
Last Thursday, the state of Alabama attempted to execute Doyle Lee Hamm. Hamm, whom we…
READ MORE >SCHR Client Olivia Pearson Acquitted
Yesterday, a Wayne County jury returned a not-guilty verdict – after just 20 minutes of…
READ MORE >Governor Deal’s Final Criminal Justice Reform Push
Last week, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal unveiled what is arguably his toughest criminal justice reform…
READ MORE >Executing the Sick and Frail in Alabama
On January 25th, Alabama had planned to execute a man who cannot remember the crime for which…
READ MORE >Bail Reform Comes to Atlanta
Money bail is American exceptionalism of the wrong variety. The United States is one of…
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