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.
When Sandra Starr's stepfather molested her as a child, she went into a "dark place."
U.S. Rep. John Lewis led a gathering of congressional and civil rights leaders in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, today, honoring those who lost their lives in the struggle for civil rights.
This week began with the sixth anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death. It will end with a march commemorating the 53rd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day voting rights activists were beaten by lawmen on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
We have lost far too many children and educators to massacres in our nation’s schools. In the aftermath of the latest tragedy in Parkland, Florida, lawmakers across the country have recognized that it is time to act on school safety.
We are disappointed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in Jennings v. Rodriguez.
