TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --Citing scientific, medical and mental health evidence likening solitary confinement to torture and demonstrating its dangers to the development and rehabilitation of children, the Southern Poverty Law Center (...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, in response to a new Trump administration rule that...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s community corrections pay-to-play model prioritizes making money over rehabilitation or public safety, according to a special investigative report the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As part of an effort to improve classroom lessons about American slavery and the important role it played in shaping the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project has released...

On August 12, 2017, the nation witnessed the horrific scene after a neo-Nazi sped his car into a group of peaceful counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person, Heather Heyer, and injuring dozens of others...

JACKSON, Miss. – On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, the United States District Court Southern District of Mississippi issued a ruling in Hopkins v. Hosemann. The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with the law firm Simpson Thacher...

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich issued the below statement on the impact of President Trump’s racially-driven rhetoric following the shooting Saturday in El Paso, Texas: “By describing...

On Friday, the SPLC joined other civil rights organization with pending litigation challenging the constitutionality of Florida Senate Bill 7066 in filing a motion for preliminary injunction . If granted, the motion would prevent...

President Donald Trump today tweeted that “we should immediately pass Voter ID.” The following statement is from Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center : “Just days after referring to a majority-...

WASHINGTON – A federal district court has rejected the government’s second attempt to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's unlawful turnbacks of asylum seekers who present themselves at ports of entry along...

MONTGOMERY, Ala - The United States Department of Justice announced today that it plans to carry out the executions of five prisoners sentenced to death. There have not been any executions of federal prisoners since 2003 as the...

ATLANTA, Ga. - Today, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee reversed his position and wants a change to the state law requiring a special day honoring Confederate General and KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest. The following statement...