SPLC Responds to Governor Kay Ivey’s Prison Construction Plan

February 12, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement, in response to Governor Kay Ivey’s prison construction plan, is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “We greet Governor Ivey’s announcement...

SPLC Action Fund Announces Advertisement to Push for End Mississippi’s Lifetime Voting Ban

February 11, 2019

JACKSON, Miss. – The SPLC Action Fund today released a new television advertisement to highlight the harms caused by Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban on individuals convicted of disqualifying offenses. In the advertisement...

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...

Victims’ Families, SPLC Join to Highlight the Mental Health Crisis in ADOC Facilities and Need for Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform

February 08, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – After the thirteenth apparent suicide of people under the care of Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) in fourteen months on Wednesday, victims’ families, their attorney, and representatives from the...

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 – Mississippians impacted by the state’s unjust and outdated lifetime voting ban met at the Capitol with lawmakers today to urge the state legislature to swiftly take up and pass SB 2508, a bill that would restore...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

SPLC Statement on the ‘Remain in Mexico’ Plan In Effect Today

January 25, 2019

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been challenging Trump's asylum policies in the courts, including getting a federal judge to temporarily block the policy of denying asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border between...

SPLC Action Fund: Recommendations would threaten, not improve school safety in Florida

January 22, 2019

The Florida Senate and House Education Committees today heard recommendations from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. The following statement is by Bacardi Jackson, managing attorney for the SPLC...

Teaching Tolerance Magazine Examines Menstrual Equity Movement in Schools

January 18, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Menstruation is one of society’s most stigmatized topics but educators can help dispel the shame associated with this natural biological process and improve gender parity by not only providing access to free...

Round Two: Kentuckians Sue Trump Administration Again Over Re-Approved Work Requirements to Medicaid

January 15, 2019

WASHINGTON – More than a dozen Kentuckians enrolled in Medicaid re-filed their lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its re-approval of work requirements and unreasonable premiums to Kentucky’s Medicaid program...

SPLC Statement on Judge’s Ruling Against Alabama Law That Forced Cities to Preserve Confederate Monuments

January 15, 2019

The following statement is by Rhonda Brownstein, Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Striking a blow to the defenders of the “Lost Cause,” a judge has struck down an Alabama law that prevented the removal of...

SPLC releases online tool that tracks rising number of hate group flyers and banners

January 11, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Emboldened by President Trump’s rhetoric, white supremacist groups have increased their distribution of flyers and banners in public spaces across the country, spreading racist and antisemitic propaganda and...

SPLC: Florida Should Comply with New Federal Juvenile Justice Legislation

December 13, 2018

Congress today passed the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, which strengthens and reauthorizes the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Among the provisions aimed at protecting justice-involved youth, the...

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 Statement on Florida Bill That Would Establish a More Diverse Judiciary

December 12, 2018

Florida State Sen. Perry Thurston, D-Fort Lauderdale, filed legislation this week that seeks to establish a more diverse judiciary in the state by reforming its judicial nomination process. The following statement is by Scott...

SPLC Responds to Richard Corcoran as Florida Commissioner of Education

December 06, 2018

Florida Governor-Elect Ron DeSantis confirmed today that he has asked Richard Corcoran, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, to be the state Commissioner of Education. The following statement is by Scott McCoy...

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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