The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report today about working conditions at poultry plants. As the SPLC has been saying for years, many safety problems in poultry processing are rooted in incredibly fast line speeds and the unrelenting pace of work that they demand.
The city of Corinth, Mississippi and Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross are operating a modern-day debtors’ prison, unlawfully jailing poor people for their inability to pay bail and fines, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed by the SPLC and another civil rights group.
The decision to allow enforcement of Trump’s Muslim ban will continue to break up families and allow religious discrimination against persons fleeing religious and political persecution.
We commend the members of the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee for their passage of four bills today that could finally put this state on the path toward meaningful criminal justice reform.
Three and a half years before Rosa Parks sat down, Pfc. Sarah Keys refused to get up.
SPLC President Richard Cohen testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security about the need to focus on domestic terrorism from the radical right.
President Trump has made his anti-Muslim sentiments no secret in the past through harmful executive orders like the Muslim ban.
A federal court hearing will begin today on the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) plan to address its failure to provide adequate staffing for the mental health care needs of prisoners.
A minor who was raped and beaten unconscious by other prisoners at Sumter Correctional Institution in Bushnell, Florida will receive $60,000 as part of a legal settlement with a guard who failed to intervene in the assault.
The bad news about the criminal justice system can seem overwhelming: vast racial disparities; an incarceration rate unprecedented in world history and more than quadrupling over the past four decades; a school-to-prison pipeline that short-circuits our children’s futures.
