CoreCivic, Inc., a private prison company under contract with Stewart County, Georgia, to house individuals detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is forcing detained immigrants to work for as little as $1 a day to clean, cook, and maintain the detention center in a scheme to maximize profits, according to a class-action lawsuit the SPLC filed against the company today.
El Southern Poverty Law Center presento una denuncia en la corte federal pidiendo la liberación de Manuel Duran, un periodista quien fue ilícitamente arrestado por la policía de Memphis y detenido por las autoridades de inmigración Estadounidenses (ICE) a manera de venganza por reportar las técnicas e implementación de las leyes contra los inmigrantes en el estado de Tennessee.
The SPLC is seeking the release of Manuel Duran, a journalist who was unlawfully arrested by Memphis police and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in retaliation for reporting on controversial issues related to law enforcement in Tennessee.
The SPLC and a broad coalition of Florida civil rights organizations sent a letter this week to the state’s congressional delegation, expressing alarm at the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census.
In five Southern states, April is Confederate History Month, a dubious designation that’s at odds with the reckoning the region has engaged in since the Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2015.
President Trump is quietly curtailing access to social safety nets for our nation’s most vulnerable people.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) decision to halt a program that provides legal information to detained immigrants is just the latest attempt by the Trump administration to ramp up a draconian immigration enforcement regime and expand the mass incarceration of immigrants.
The SPLC is preparing to provide legal representation to approximately 50 people who were arrested at a meatpacking plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, in the largest workplace immigration raid since the George W. Bush administration.
The SPLC filed a petition today seeking the “immediate and unconditional release” of a 15-year-old boy who has been illegally held in a juvenile prison without a court hearing that is required under Louisiana law.
Attorneys gave closing arguments today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, concluding a five-week trial in Dockery, et al. v. Hall, et al., a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility in Meridian, Mississippi.
