The Louisiana House today approved Senate Bill 108, which absolves bail bond companies from having to refund as much as $6 million overcharged to approximately 50,000 New Orleans families after the Commissioner of Insurance found...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Social justice educators are shifting the narrative on professional development through social media where thought leaders who, historically, might have been marginalized, are finding a platform and a source of...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – To fight for a healthier democracy and fully realize the promise of the Civil Rights Movement, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the formation of a new Voting Rights Practice Group. In the group’...

The Louisiana House today voted against House Bill 65, which would have made people with past convictions eligible for jury duty. The following statement is by Jamila Johnson, senior supervising attorney for the SPLC Action Fund...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement on the passage of HB 380 in the Alabama House of Representatives is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: "Alabama has a prison overcrowding crisis on its...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s Department of Corrections (ADOC) will be required to immediately take detailed steps to monitor people in segregation in prison and implement other preventive measures to reduce the risk of suicides,...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement is from Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: “The Alabama Legislature deserves praise for fixing a longstanding legal loophole in how Alabama county jails have...

The following statement is from Keegan Hankes, senior research analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Facebook and Instagram announced today that they have banned several far-right, antisemitic and extremist figures and...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Today the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia certified class action status in J.E.C.M v. Hayes , a lawsuit challenging the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) policies and...

The below statement is by SPLC Spokesperson Lecia Brooks following President Trump’s defense of his 2017 statements about the white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va.: “In 2017, the nation witnessed Ku Klux Klan members...

The Louisiana House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee today voted 9-7 in favor of House Bill 255 , which would roll back a reform passed in the 2017 justice reinvestment package. The following statement is by Terry...