The Center's Immigrant Justice Project, a new legal initiative focused on the working conditions of farmworkers and other immigrants, works to protect the rights of immigrants throughout the Southeast.
The Center's Immigrant Justice Project, a new legal initiative focused on the working conditions of farmworkers and other immigrants, works to protect the rights of immigrants throughout the Southeast.
As part of an ongoing effort to protect the most vulnerable members of society, the Center has awarded a grant to help prevent more than 300,000 poor Tennesseans from losing health care.
The Immigrant Justice Project has been created to fight for the rights of immigrant workers in the Southeast, where conditions are worst in the nation and workers are routinely exploited.
The Center's legal team focuses on the 'Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Pipeline.'
Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) of Alabama, was honored by the National Lawyers Guilt for his commitment to justice and the struggle for equality. The Center supports EJI's work with a yearly grant.
The Center's Gaddis v. Campbell suit, filed to help diabetic inmates in Alabama prisons receive adequate medical care, has been settled, creating a precedent for in-prison diabetes care.
A lawsuit on behalf of imprisoned diabetics ensures a constitutional level of care.
Through a combination of legal action and grassroots community efforts, Center attorneys are working to overhaul Mississippi's brutal juvenile justice system.
In Cochise County, Ariz., anti-immigrant militant Roger Barnett has threatened Latinos at gunpoint, yet has never been prosecuted for his actions. In Tucson, armed nativist Roy Warden was caught on videotape threatening to blow a child's brains out, but the prosecutor did not request that Warden serve any jail time.
¿Cuánta libertad tienen los fiscales para elegir qué casos van a juicio? ¿Tienen algún recurso quienes estén en desacuerdo?