Category: Criminalization of Poverty
Southern Center for Human Rights Sends Warning Letter to City of Clarkston Regarding Unlawful Practices in the Clarkston Municipal Court
On Friday, attorneys from the Southern Center for Human Rights sent a letter to Clarkston…
READ MORE >Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Policies Unlawfully Restricting Access to Basic Utility Services
In May 2017, the Southern Center for Human Rights, along with the National Immigration Law…
READ MORE >Court-Watching on March 6, 2019, at the Atlanta Municipal Court
At the Southern Center for Human Rights, we’ve used court-watching as a tool for a…
READ MORE >We Think These Stories Are Important
In 2006, the United States recorded a record high number of newly filed, reopened, or…
READ MORE >It’s Time to End Illegal “Pay-or-Jail” Sentences at the Atlanta Municipal Court
Today, the Southern Center for Human Rights sent a letter to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance…
READ MORE >The Bail Industry Tries, Again, To Overturn Bail Reform in Georgia
This past Monday, a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee heard HB 340, a…
READ MORE >A Call to Action from Executive Director Sara Totonchi Before Super Bowl LIII
Next week, Atlanta will host the Super Bowl. This will be one of the largest…
READ MORE >The End of Louisiana’s “Jim Crow Jury”
Last week, Louisiana voted overwhelmingly to abolish non-unanimous jury verdicts – a relic of Jim…
READ MORE >Bail Reform in Atlanta Has Been Successful: Don’t be Duped by Misleading Court Data, Especially in the Wake of the Cyberattack
Nearly 750,000 people are detained in jails across the country every day because of an…
READ MORE >Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people
In a first-of-its-kind study, the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) is reporting that formerly incarcerated people…
READ MORE >Two Rulings, One Conclusion: ‘User-Pay’ Court Funding Unconstitutional
In two landmark decisions this month, two federal judges declared that there is a clear…
READ MORE >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…
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