A minor who was raped and beaten unconscious by other prisoners at Sumter Correctional Institution in Bushnell, Florida will receive $60,000 as part of a legal settlement with a guard who failed to intervene in the assault.
The bad news about the criminal justice system can seem overwhelming: vast racial disparities; an incarceration rate unprecedented in world history and more than quadrupling over the past four decades; a school-to-prison pipeline that short-circuits our children’s futures.
A federal court ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the SPLC.
North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups – including the SPLC – filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a state law that guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
The U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE’s) proposed discretionary spending priorities abandon the agency’s longstanding commitment to a high-quality education for all students, and undermine public schools across the country, the SPLC said in comments submitted yesterday to the DOE.
As we feared, the FBI’s hate crime report for 2016 shows a second straight year of increases – the first time that’s happened in a decade. It means that in the last two years, the number of reported hate crimes has risen by nearly 12 percent.
If law enforcement agencies in Alabama want to seize and keep someone’s property — cash, cars, real estate, guns, TVs or other assets — they don’t have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was used in drug trafficking or obtained through criminal activity.
HB 1, which would create a new form of private school voucher, has been touted as a safety net for bullied youth, but the reality is that this legislation makes a promise it cannot keep. Instead of providing a safe learning environment for all children, HB 1 would push the victims of bullying out of their schools and into private schools with fewer protections.
HB 9 is bad policy that would violate the Constitution, waste taxpayer money, make our communities less safe, and expose local law enforcement to costly civil rights lawsuits.
A diverse coalition of groups that oppose the law enforcement practice of seizing property from citizens without first obtaining a criminal conviction held an educational forum today, arguing that the Alabama State Legislature should outlaw the practice.
