Category: Mass Incarceration
Statement from Sara Totonchi on Possible Covid-19 Exposure at the Fulton County Jail
After the AJC reported yesterday that a detainee is being held in isolation at the Fulton County Jail…
READ MORE >SCHR Sends Public Letter to State Regarding the Potential Spread of COVID-19 to People in Georgia Prisons
On March 13, 2010, the Southern Center for Human Rights sent a public letter to…
READ MORE >Civil Rights Groups Undertake Voter Education for People in Georgia Jails
Yesterday, the Southern Center for Human Rights and Dēmos mailed 1,000 nonpartisan, voter education packets…
READ MORE >Senate Study Committee on Revising Voting Rights Recommends No Changes to Current Law
This year, a bipartisan group of state senators convened to form the Senate Study Committee…
READ MORE >Currently incarcerated? Have a past criminal record?
If you or someone you know is having trouble voting because of a conviction or…
READ MORE >‘What we call goals are human rights’: an interview with Close the Jail ATL’s Marilynn Winn
The Atlanta City Detention Center (or ACDC) has historically served as a place to warehouse…
READ MORE >Judge Grants Injunction to Halt Solitary Confinement
Press Contact: Hannah Riley; 470-867-7530; [email protected] (Atlanta, GA) — Today, United States District Court Judge…
READ MORE >Judge Grants Injunction to Halt Solitary Confinement and to Remedy “Repulsive” Conditions for Women at South Fulton Jail
United States District Court Judge William M. Ray, II issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Sheriff of…
READ MORE >DOJ Files Statement of Interest in SCHR Case
In April, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR), along with the Georgia Advocacy Office,…
READ MORE >Victorian Asylum or Modern Jail?
By Sara Totonchi, Executive Director When K.H. was arrested in Atlanta in November of 2018,…
READ MORE >Civil Rights Lawsuit Challenges the Illegal Mass Arrest of 60+ Partygoers for Less Than an Ounce of Marijuana in Cartersville, Georgia
Today, the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Merchant Law Firm, PC are filing…
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…
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