The Southern Center for Human Rights is a dedicated to ending capital punishment, mass incarceration, and other criminal justice practices that are used to control the lives of poor people, people of color, and other marginalized groups in the South.
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Saturday, December 12 at 6:50pm - 13th Annual Frederick Douglass...
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Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm - Justice Taking Root
LOFT at Castleberry Hill
Thursday, June 18 at 6:30pm
Southern Center for Human Rights thanks Alan Judd for this excellent piece on how registries do little to protect public safety.
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It can’t locate Frederick Charles Zimmerman, either. Or Charles Eugene Mickler. Or nearly 250 other sex offenders from metro Atlanta.
Southern Center for Human Rights our friends at The Constitution Project are hiring - check out their website for more info.
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Southern Center for Human Rights If you are a fan or want to help advance the work of the Southern Center for Human Rights, please consider a year end contribution.
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Why Donate to SCHR? The Southern Center for Human Rights relies on individual donations and a limited number of foundation grants to carry out our work. SCHR neither solicits nor receives government funding. Our budget supports a 28-person staff and the
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WASHINGTON — Texas and other states that lead the nation in executions are sentencing many fewer inmates to death, a trend that slowly is reducing the death row population in the United States, a report from an anti-capital punishment group says.
Southern Center for Human Rights check out our great friend Amy Bach, author of Ordinary Injustice, on this week's Between the Lines. For Atlantans, it will air at 7pm Friday on 90.1FM
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WABE-FM 90.1 proudly presents the weekly author interview program, Between the Lines, hosted by former First Lady of Atlanta, Valerie Jackson. Between the Lines continues to bring original programming to Atlanta as it showcases the brightest and most notable of today’s writers and thinkers. ...
Southern Center for Human Rights GOOD NEWS!!! Stay of execution for Carlton Gary- NO EXECUTION TONIGHT!!! Details to follow but please pass this good news on!
Southern Center for Human Rights congratulates our friends at the Georgia Innocence Project for freeing a wrongfully convicted man!
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A 43-year-old man was released Tuesday after serving more than two years in prison for a crime DNA tests show he did not commit.
Southern Center for Human Rights Please join SCHR and Georgians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty at one of the 11 statewide vigils tomorrow night to show our opposition to our state taking a person's life.
Parole Board denies Carlton Gary's request for DNA test (Georgians For Alternatives to the Death Pen
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On Tuesday, Dec. 15, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Carlton Gary's request for a stay of execution and a DNA test of physical evidence after a 7-hour hearing on Monday and deliberations on Tuesday. Georgians opposed to the death penalty will gather to stand vigil during the execution ...
Southern Center for Human Rights congratulates our amazing Appellate Indigent Defense Team - Lauren Sudeall Lucas, Melanie Velez, Gerry Weber, Mary Sidney Kelly and Mike Caplan - for filing a great lawsuit today!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lawsuit Filed to Secure Lawyers for Poor People Seeking Appeals | Southern Ce
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA – Today, a team of lawyers have filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia for its failure to provide counsel for nearly 200 convicted indigent who do not have lawyers to represent them in their appeals. Lawyers from Bondurant, Mixson and Elmore, P.C.; Garland, Samuel and Loeb, P...
Southern Center for Human Rights is filing a new lawsuit with terrific co-counsel today- stay tuned!!
Southern Center for Human Rights a harrowing but very strong piece against the death penalty from the New York Times: "The larger problem, however, is that changing a lethal-injection method is simply an attempt, as Justice Harry Blackmun put it, to “tinker with the machinery of death.” No matter how it is done, for the state to put someone to death is inherently barbaric."
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No matter how an execution is done, whether with one drug or a cocktail of three, for Ohio to put someone to death is inherently barbaric.
Southern Center for Human Rights INCREDIBLE editorial on our case at Donaldson Correctional Facility!!
OUR VIEW: Obviously, something is wrong with the way the state Department of Corrections has been re
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"Trust us." That's always the message from governments which don't operate fully in the open. Trust us that when we meet behind closed doors, we're not doing anything you need to know about. Trust us that when we refuse to grant full access to our records, we're not hiding anything. ...
Alabama corrections agency underreports prison violence at Donaldson, say lawyers | Breaking News fr
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Prison system records prove Alabama's corrections agency routinely underreports the number of fights, stabbings and beatings at the maximum-security Donaldson prison, lawyers for inmates said Wednesday.
Southern Center for Human Rights Y'all aren't going to believe this one! Check out today's press release to see how the AL Dept of Corrections has repeatedly underreported violence in their prisons. Thanks to Melanie Velez, Sarah Geraghty, Lauren R. Brown and Vivienne Guevara for their great work on the Donaldson Correctional Facility case!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Alabama Department of Corrections Significantly Underreports Assaults on Inca
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MONTGOMERY, AL — The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has repeatedly released inaccurate information to the public, significantly underreporting the
