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SPLC President Responds to ADOC’s Statement on Suicide Crisis

February 08, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – This statement by Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is in response to a Friday evening press release by the Alabama Department of Corrections and Commissioner Jeff Dunn: “As the Court...

SB 2508 Would End Mississippi’s Lifetime Voting Ban

February 05, 2019
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippians impacted by the state’s unjust and outdated lifetime voting ban met at the Capitol with lawmakers today to urge the state legislature to swiftly take up and pass SB 2508, a bill that would restore...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on ADOC FY 2020 Budget Request

January 30, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement is from Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: “Commissioner Dunn’s proposed hiring of 500 new corrections officers in the second half of Fiscal Year 2020 is a...

Number of Children Prosecuted as Adults in Florida Declines

December 13, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice released new data this week that shows a 20 percent drop from the previous year in the number of juveniles who have been transferred to adult court. A total of 904...

SPLC Report: U.S. Education on American Slavery Sorely Lacking

February 01, 2018
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a...

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