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HEALTHCARE | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner. Decriminalizing Race and Poverty Symposium. As the result of extreme overcrowding, budget cuts, and the profit priorities of for-profit health care providers, people in prisons, jails and detention facilities with medical needs suffer from poor medical care. Have improved critical medical care:. Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Laube v. Allen. Leatherwood v. Campbell. Prisons have l...
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VIOLENCE AND ABUSE | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner. Decriminalizing Race and Poverty Symposium. Too often, prison administrators tolerate high levels of violence of their facilities, excusing it as an inevitable consequence of life in prison. SCHR has challenged these unconstitutional conditions in the following cases:. In 2013, SCHR and Hunton and Williams LLP, filed. Nwakanma, et al. v Clark, et al., was filed by SCHR and H...Was f...
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OVERCROWDING | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner. Decriminalizing Race and Poverty Symposium. SCHR has represented hundreds of men and women in class action lawsuits challenging the consequences of severe overcrowding: violence, excessive use of force by corrections officers unable to keep order in the chaos created by overcrowding, poor medical care, and intolerable living conditions. Laube v. Alabama. Southern Center for Human Ri...
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DEATH PENALTY | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner. Decriminalizing Race and Poverty Symposium. Failure to present mitigation evidence. To view a summary of US Supreme Court Death Penalty cases since 1970, click here. The death penalty is a direct descendant of lynching and other forms of racial violence and racial oppression in the American South. In addition to official executions, unofficial executions lynchings were common in the...
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SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. Justice Taking Root 2017. Challenging Georgia’s Unjust Sex Offender Laws. Whitaker, et al. v. Perdue, et al. United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia. From 2006-2013, SCHR represented a class of all persons on Georgia’s sex offender registry in a challenge to certain provisions of Georgia’s sex offender law. The case was. Whitaker, et al. v. Perdue, et al. Case can be found here:. Complaint, 6.20.06. Joint Not...
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PRIVATE PRISONS | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. Justice Taking Root 2017. Georgia currently has the highest rate in the U.S. of individuals under some form of correctional control probation, parole, prison or jail. While the national average is 1 out of every 31 people is under correctional supervision (prison, jail, probation, parole), Georgia’s rate is 1 out of 13 adults. However, the Georgia Department of Corrections found that in FY 2011, private prisons cost the state $...
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GEORGIA DEPRIVES CHILDREN AS INDIGENT PARENTS LANGUISH IN DEBTORS’ JAIL FOR INABILITY TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. Justice Taking Root 2017. GEORGIA DEPRIVES CHILDREN AS INDIGENT PARENTS LANGUISH IN DEBTORS’ JAIL FOR INABILITY TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT. Georgia Deprives Children As Indigent Parents Languish In Debtors’ Jail For Inability To Pay Child Support. Everyone agrees that parents must support their children. But sending parents to jail for child support debt just because they are poor is bad policy for children and families. Case No....
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FINES AND FEES | Southern Center for Human Rights
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Skip to main content. Join Our Email List. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. Justice Taking Root 2017. As the criminal justice system has grown, it has become increasingly difficult to finance. One source of revenue that has become more popular is new fees and fines, imposed on people charged with crimes. Lawsuit Challenges Court’s Blanket Policy of Barring Access to Criminal Court Files. Columbus Recorder’s Court accused of jailing indigent citizens in violation of law.
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COMPETENCY | Southern Center for Human Rights
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