The Southern Poverty Law Center joined two other organizations this week in urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release immediate guidance and precise criteria outlining how the department intends to implement the Supreme Court decision that allows the Muslim ban to take partial effect.
A federal judge today declared the mental health care system in Alabama prisons to be 鈥渉orrendously inadequate鈥� 鈥� an unconstitutional failure that has resulted in a 鈥渟kyrocketing suicide rate鈥� among prisoners.
The following statement is about the Supreme Court鈥檚 .
BATESVILLE, Miss. 鈥� Rita still felt sore from giving birth a few days earlier. But in the early morning on March 28, she rose to make breakfast for her husband and children. She did not know they were all being watched.
The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) has adopted a new policy for the care of transgender prisoners after a transgender woman incarcerated in a Michigan prison campaigned, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center (蜜桃传媒) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU of Michigan), to receive the hormone therapy she was denied.
This weekend we鈥檙e featuring an op-ed by 蜜桃传媒 President Richard Cohen in .
We鈥檙e deeply disappointed by the U.S. Senate鈥檚 heartless proposal to eviscerate Medicaid and roll back many of the protections made available under the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans would be stripped of their access to affordable health care.聽
We are disappointed by the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. HB 1523 is a plain violation of our central constitutional values.
Immigrant children who have been illegally barred from enrolling in high school in Collier County, Florida, should be allowed to begin classes during the upcoming school year while a federal lawsuit filed on their behalf makes its way through court, according to a motion filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center today.
In five Southern states, people released from jail, prison, probation or parole encounter laws that make it more difficult for them to get a job, find housing and access basic services due to their conviction 鈥� significant obstacles that must be removed to help people successfully return to their communities, the Southern Poverty Law Center聽said in a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
