Rosa Parks is a national hero, but she is not recognized that way in her home state of Alabama.
Rosa Parks is a national hero, but she is not recognized that way in her home state of Alabama.
With the return to mandatory minimum sentencing, Jeff Sessions took us backwards to the tactics of America’s failed War on Drugs.
He crisscrossed the country. He fought in court. But white nationalist Richard Spencer has a simple explanation for why he will no longer give speeches on college campuses to spread the racist ideology of the so-called “alt-right.”
Jasmine Boutdy sat outside the glass window, picked up the phone, and listened intently as the detained immigrant on the other side of the glass told his story.
The screaming blocks out all other sound. In more than two minutes of footage, the only words audible above the girls’ sobbing: “Get in the car.” “Mom!” “Where is she going?” “Are you guys alone?” “Yes.”
The SPLC and the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) urged Etowah County in Alabama to provide outdoor recreation access at a detention center where some immigrants spend months, or even years, without going outside.
The city of Gardendale, Alabama and its municipal court have cut ties with a private probation company that ran an illegal, profit-driven, private probation scheme in the city by exploiting low-income defendants and violating their federal constitutional and state rights.
When an Atlanta immigration court judge recently heard the asylum case of a Chinese national, he asked the man if he spoke English.
The SPLC and other immigrant and civil rights groups issued a joint report today describing the legal liabilities that local governments face when they honor requests from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to hold people who have been arrested past the completion of their criminal custody, so that ICE agents can detain them.
A trial begins today to stop the mistreatment of people in a for-profit Mississippi prison where mentally ill individuals, who are at risk of death and loss of limbs, have resorted to setting their cells on fire to receive medical attention.