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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Settlement marks step toward ending abuses at for-profit immigrant prisons
In 2015, when Wilhen Hill Barrientos was sent to the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, after seeking asylum in the U.S., he could either work for nearly nothing or lose access to basic necessities, safety and privacy. He was told that if he refused, he would be placed in solitary confinement. He also would…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Louisiana advocates seek better path after youths removed from Angola prison
Shareef Cousin was 17 when he first set foot in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Wrongly convicted of murder, in 1996 he became the youngest person there, awaiting execution in one of the most notorious prisons in the U.S. Two years later, the Louisiana Supreme Court overturned his conviction. But during that time, he experienced what…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Caswell v. Horton, et al.
Content warning: The following case summary contains graphic descriptions of a mother almost dying during childbirth. Ashley Caswell filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Alabama after her constitutional rights were violated when a notorious county jail restricted her access to necessary medical care during a high-risk pregnancy. Her pleas for help were ignored as…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Mississippi’s Youth Legal System Must Invest in Its Children, Not Incarcerate Them
For years, Mississippi’s youth legal system has treated young Black people as criminals who need punishment instead of children who need support and care. Such a system has increasingly used incarceration as the default response to youth crime, even though youth arrests have declined significantly over the past 20 years. Incarcerating children not only does…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Letter to Congress Urging Investments in Fiscal Year 2023 Senate and House Appropriations
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Yellowhammer Fund v. Attorney General of Alabama Steve Marshall
After Alabama’s attorney general threatened to criminalize people helping pregnant Alabamians access legal abortion care in other states, The Lawyering Project, joined by the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the attorney general from making good on his threat. The attorney general threatened organizations such as the plaintiff, the Yellowhammer…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
The Farmworker Association of Florida Inc., et. al. v. Ronald D. DeSantis, et. al.
A sweeping new anti-immigrant law – SB 1718 – took effect in Florida on July 1, 2023. The law harms Florida immigrants and their families and seeks to target and intimidate immigrant families in every facet of their lives. The SPLC and its legal partners filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the law is unconstitutional.…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Louisiana chooses incarceration over rehabilitation for children
On July 19, 2022, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his decision to transfer incarcerated young people to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola – an adult prison with a long history of human rights abuses. The decision was emblematic of a state that consistently sees young Black people as criminals to be…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Letter to Congress Urging Investments in Fiscal Year 2023 Senate and House Appropriations
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
‘Hopeless’: Parole denial for Alabama woman with terminal illness highlights injustice
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles meets just 20 miles from the prison where Leola Harris, a 71-year-old woman in end-stage renal failure, has been incarcerated for 19 years. But for Harris, those 20 miles might as well be the moon, as far away as her chances of being released from prison before she…
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