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Whenever Lakendra Cook sees a police officer, her heart starts pounding.
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Alabama unlawfully suspended the driver’s licenses of thousands of people unable to pay traffic tickets. The SPLC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the state from suspending licenses without considering a person’s ability to pay and finding that the person willfully failed to pay. It also sought...
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In 2014, Don Adams put off going to the hospital for treatment of an infection after the state of Tennessee failed to promptly decide on his application to TennCare, the state’s federally funded Medicaid program.
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The SPLC has urged the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to continue efforts to identify and prevent workplace injuries and not to let employers off the hook for creating dangerous work environments.
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The SPLC on Monday urged the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reject Alabama’s application for a waiver that would allow the state to impose work requirements on adult caregivers of dependent children.
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People who were jailed simply because they could not afford bail in Cullman County, Alabama, won a significant victory today when a federal court judge ruled that the practice is unconstitutional.
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A Louisiana appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is unconstitutional for the DeSoto Parish district attorney’s office to fund the cash-strapped public defender’s office with money from a pretrial diversion program.
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New figures released by the state of Arkansas this week show that more than 4,600 low-income people in the state have lost their Medicaid benefits because of a draconian state requirement that they must work in order to receive those benefits.
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When police arrived, they found Frank Ellington’s body draped backwards over the machine he’d been cleaning.
Charles Gresham has had trouble finding and keeping work because of issues related to his seizures. He received a notice from the state of Arkansas that if he did not meet a requirement to work 20 hours a week, he would lose his Medicaid coverage. When he tried to report his work hours to the...
