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Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Louisiana
May 2009
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Louisiana schools. It recommends that schools adopt Positive Behavior Supports, a framework that can fundamentally transform school environments by emphasizing positive behavior and eliminating harsh, zero-tolerance policies that push many vulnerable students out of school and into detention for minor misbehavior.
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Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South
April 2009
In this study, the Southern Poverty Law Center found that Latinos are facing increasing hostility and discrimination as they fill low-wage jobs in Southern states that previously had few Latino residents. Based primarily on a survey of 500 low-income Latinos at five locations in the South, the report documented wage theft, racial profiling and other abuses driven by an anti-immigrant climate that harms all Latinos regardless of their immigration status. Read online
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The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance
February 2009
This report documents how three Washington, D.C., organizations that played a key role in blocking comprehensive immigration reform in 2007 are part of a network of groups created by a man who has been at the heart of the white nationalist movement for decades. It describes how the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Center for Immigration Studies and NumbersUSA were founded and funded by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who operates a racist publishing company and has written that to maintain American culture, "a European-American majority" is required. Read online
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Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Alabama
July 2008
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Alabama schools. It recommends that schools adopt Positive Behavior Supports, a framework that can fundamentally transform school environments by emphasizing positive behavior and eliminating harsh, zero-tolerance policies that push many vulnerable students out of school and into detention for minor misbehavior.
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Reducing Student and Teacher Dropout Rates in Mississippi
April 2008
This report outlines a research-based approach to school discipline that reduces student and teacher dropout rates while improving academic performance and the overall climate in Mississippi schools. It recommends that schools adopt Positive Behavior Supports, a framework that can fundamentally transform school environments by emphasizing positive behavior and eliminating harsh, zero-tolerance policies that push many vulnerable students out of school and into detention for minor misbehavior.
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Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States
April 2007
This report describes the systematic exploitation of foreign workers who come to this country for temporary jobs under the nation's H-2 guestworker program. Based on dozens of legal cases and interviews with thousands of guestworkers, it documents how guestworkers are routinely cheated out of wages, forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs, and held virtually captive by employers. Read online
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Beneath the Pines: Stories of Migrant Tree Planters
May 2006
In their own words, migrant forestry workers describe how they routinely earn less than the minimum wage, suffer frequent accidents on the job and are held virtually captive by employers who seize their passports and other identification. The report also offers specific policy recommendations to ensure the safety and fair treatment of migrant workers.
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Broken Levees, Broken Promises
March 2006
This report provides first-person accounts of the abuse that migrant workers in New Orleans endured as they cleaned up and rebuilt the city following Hurricane Katrina. The report describes how migrant workers in New Orleans were cheated out of pay, left hungry and homeless, and even denied medical treatment and benefits after being injured on the job.
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Drawing the Line
If you care about fair elections – if you want to make sure your voice is heard – get involved in the redistricting process.
Those who draw the district lines get to decide who is in each district, what elections the people in each district get to vote in, and what group will control those elections for years to come.
Created by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Drawing the Line explains the redistricting process and provides tools and techniques that can help you become a force for equity in your community, in your state and in the nation.
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Courtroom Victories
"Courtroom Victories", first published in the February 1995 issue of Trial, a publication of the American Trial Lawyers Association, shares some of the Southern Poverty Law Center's strategies for reducing hate crimes and hate activities by pursuing civil remedies for the victims.
Since 1979, the SPLC has shut down some of the nation's largest white supremacist organizations by helping victims of racist violence sue for monetary damages.
While the groups usually don't have much money, the judgments effectively put them out of business. These courtroom victories were funded entirely by SPLC supporters; the SPLC accepts no legal fees from clients.
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Prisoner Diabetes Handbook
Prisoner Diabetes Handbook: A Guide to Managing Diabetes - for Prisoners, by Prisoners explains the facts about diabetes and how prisoners can help themselves when they have diabetes.
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Protecting Your Health and Safety: Prisoner's Rights
 Designed to help inmates who are not represented by an attorney, Protecting Your Health & Safety explains the legal rights inmates have regarding health and safety – including the right to medical care and to be free from inhumane treatment.
Inmates can also learn how to enforce those rights when they are violated, and find a list of federal courts and resources groups for prison inmates. This manual does not cover criminal matters.
Bound copies of the complete 325-page manual are available from Prison Legal News for $16 ($10 + $6 shipping/handling). Free shipping/handling for orders from Prison Legal News over $50. Mail your request and check or money order payable to "Prison Legal News" to:
Protecting Your Health & Safety
Prison Legal News
2400 NW 80th St.
No. 148
Seattle, WA 98117
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