(Montgomery, AL) -- In a letter sent yesterday to the United States Attorneys for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama, the Southern Center for Human Rights, Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Adelante Alabama Worker Center, the American Conservative Union, and FreedomWorks urged an investigation into Alabama sheriffs with federal detention contracts who have personally pocketed substantial amounts of taxpayer money from jail food accounts, in likely violation of federal law.
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16th October 2018
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11th July 2018
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15th June 2018
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19th April 2018
(Atlanta, GA) -- Today, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of two men who were beaten while handcuffed by officers employed at Georgia State Prison.
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10th April 2018
(Columbus, GA ) - Yesterday, a unique group of former prosecutors, a former judge, and a civil rights attorney filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Johnny Lee Gates, whose 1977 murder conviction has been called into question by new evi
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19th March 2018
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19th, 2018
Contact: Hannah Riley, SCHR (404-688-1202, ext. 220; [email protected])
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8th January 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2018
Media Contacts:
Aaron Littman, Southern Center for Human Rights, (404) 688 1202, [email protected]
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13th December 2017
(ATLANTA) On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, two Atlanta-based activists who have long been distributing food to the homeless in public parks were cited for allegedly violating a county ordinance requiring a permit to distribute food. Available resources to feed the homeless are especially scarce on weekends, when shelters are often full. The lack of available space makes street feeding the simplest and most effective way to get food to homeless people in Atlanta.
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14th November 2017
Atlanta, GA -- A proposed multimillion dollar class settlement has been reached in K.A., et al. v.
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13th November 2017
(Atlanta, GA) – On Friday, November 10, 2017, two civil rights organizations, Civil Rights Corps (CRC) and the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR),
