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SPLC Launches Voting Rights Practice Group, Testified at Congressional Field Hearing on Voting Rights

May 14, 2019

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – To fight for a healthier democracy and fully realize the promise of the Civil Rights Movement, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the formation of a new Voting Rights Practice Group. In the group’...

Judge: Sophie B. Wright Students Have Right to Participate in Graduation

May 13, 2019

A preliminary injunction requested by the Southern Poverty Law Center to allow students to participate in today's Sophie B. Wright Charter School's high school graduation was granted this morning by Orleans Parish Civil District...

LPA: Formerly incarcerated people should serve on juries

May 13, 2019

The Louisiana House today voted against House Bill 65, which would have made people with past convictions eligible for jury duty. The following statement is by Jamila Johnson, senior supervising attorney for the SPLC Action Fund...

Human Rights Attorneys in Court to Defend Lawsuit Challenging Unlawful Trump Administration Turnback Policy

May 10, 2019

SAN DIEGO, Ca.—The Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights, and American Immigration Council argued in federal district court today against the government’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Trump...

SPLC Action Statement on Alabama House of Representatives Passing HB380 Affecting Board of Pardons and Paroles

May 09, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement on the passage of HB 380 in the Alabama House of Representatives is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "Alabama has a prison overcrowding crisis on its...

Lawsuit Challenges Massive Use of Solitary in Florida Prisons

May 08, 2019

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Admire Harvard has spent nearly 10 years locked up in solitary confinement in the Florida prison system. Harvard, a 28-year-old black transgender woman, has been subjected to solitary confinement in a men’s...

ADOC Required to Immediately Address Suicides in Prison

May 06, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s Department of Corrections (ADOC) will be required to immediately take detailed steps to monitor people in segregation in prison and implement other preventive measures to reduce the risk of suicides,...

Louisianans for Prison Alternatives Rally for Criminal Justice Reform

May 06, 2019

BATON ROUGE – On the heels of a public opinion poll showing broad bipartisan support for Louisiana’s 2017 Justice Reinvestment Package, hundreds of criminal justice advocates descended on the Capitol today for Louisianans for...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Alabama Legislature Passage of SB 228 - Jail Food Fix

May 02, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement is from Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: “The Alabama Legislature deserves praise for fixing a longstanding legal loophole in how Alabama county jails have...

Teaching Tolerance Report Examines the Rise of Hate in Schools

May 02, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - While disturbing incidents of hate and bias in schools are regularly reported in the news media, the incidents are just a fraction of what educators are encountering in classrooms across the country, a new...

SPLC: Facebook and Instagram ban far-right and extremist figures, but still have more work to do against hateful content

May 02, 2019

The following statement is from Keegan Hankes, senior research analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Facebook and Instagram announced today that they have banned several far-right, antisemitic and extremist figures and...

SPLC statement on antisemitic shooting at Congregation Chabad in California

April 27, 2019

The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, following the deadly shooting at a California synagogue earlier today: “Today we saw another horrific act of...

SPLC: Court Certifies Class Action in Lawsuit on Behalf of Children in Virginia Detained by Trump Administration

April 26, 2019

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Today the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia certified class action status in J.E.C.M v. Hayes , a lawsuit challenging the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) policies and...

SPLC: Louisiana’s title of incarceration capital of the world is an opportunity for smarter criminal justice reform

April 26, 2019

Louisiana once again has the highest incarceration rate, imprisoning 719 of every 100,000 residents, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. The following statement is by Jamila Johnson...

SPLC: Trump’s defense of Charlottesville comments emboldens white nationalists

April 26, 2019

The below statement is by SPLC Spokesperson Lecia Brooks following President Trump’s defense of his 2017 statements about the white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va.: “In 2017, the nation witnessed Ku Klux Klan members...

LPA: Make All Louisiana Crime Victims Eligible for Compensation

April 24, 2019

The Louisiana House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee today voted unanimously in favor of House Bill 85 , which would make crime survivors or victims’ families eligible for compensation regardless of criminal history...

LPA: Don’t Roll Back Successful Justice Reform

April 24, 2019

The Louisiana House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee today voted 9-7 in favor of House Bill 255 , which would roll back a reform passed in the 2017 justice reinvestment package. The following statement is by Terry...

Statement of Mary Bauer, Deputy Legal Director, the Southern Poverty Law Center on Attorney General Barr Order Targeting Asylum Seekers with Indefinite Detention

April 16, 2019

“Yet again this Administration is targeting the most vulnerable individuals with truly egregious policies. This edict means that asylum seekers who have passed their initial “credible fear” asylum interview would automatically be...

Court Grants Injunction in Trump's "Remain in Mexico"

April 08, 2019

Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center statement on Innovation Law Lab. v. Nielson: "Today’s victory is especially important amidst reports that the Trump administration is planning to move toward...

SPLC Launches Digital Initiative to Promote Honest Discussion of Confederate History

April 05, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) this week launched a digital initiative that seeks to correct the false narratives of the “Lost Cause” mythology, which idolizes people who fought against the United...

Families File Claims Against the Trump Administration for Harm Suffered from the Family Separation Policy

April 04, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC – Two immigrant parents and their children who were unjustly and forcibly separated by immigration officials at the border filed administrative claims against the United States seeking compensation for the harms...

SPLC Responds to U.S. D.O.J. Letter of Findings on Alabama Prison System

April 03, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice today released an unprecedented analysis of the Alabama prison system concluding that conditions at the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) likely violate the Eighth Amendment of the U.S...

SPLC Names Karen Baynes-Dunning Interim President and CEO

April 02, 2019

MONTGOMERY, AL – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today named Board member Karen Baynes-Dunning interim President and CEO effective immediately. Baynes-Dunning has served on the SPLC Board of Directors since October 2017...

Mississippi City Agrees to Overhaul Fine and Bail Practices Following Investigation by Civil Rights Organizations

April 02, 2019

MERIDIAN, Miss. – The Meridian City Council voted today to approve an agreement with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law to...

Statement of Mary Bauer, Deputy Legal Director, the Southern Poverty Law Center on the DHS Request for More Authority Targeting Immigrant Children

March 29, 2019

“Given the lengths to which federal agencies have gone to defend and cover up their treatment of immigrant children, there is absolutely no way Congress should give the Department of Homeland Security more authority, especially...

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