The SPLC asked a federal judge today to force the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to take immediate action to protect suicidal prisoners – an action that comes after a prisoner represented by the SPLC was found dead in his cell from suicide 10 days after testifying in federal court about the state’s failure to provide adequate mental health care to prisoners.
Editor’s note: As of December 13, 2017, a total of 78 Alabama cities have reformed their bail practices. A list of these cities can be found here.
SPLC lawyers went to trial today to force the state of Alabama to provide constitutionally required mental health care to prisoners living in the nation’s most overcrowded prison system.
A federal judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit on behalf of prisoners denied mental health care can head to trial as a class action on behalf of all prisoners, noting that there is evidence of systemic “deliberate indifference” to the mental health needs of the prisoners.
To help bring awareness to the fact that thousands of children are charged and held in the adult criminal justice system, the SPLC partnered with community groups in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to host community action events for Youth Justice Action Month (YJAM) events throughout October.
The Alabama Court of the Judiciary heard testimony today in a trial to determine whether state Chief Justice Roy Moore violated judicial ethics when he advised state officials to ignore federal court orders and uphold the state’s unconstitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
The SPLC filed a federal civil rights complaint today over discipline and arrest policies in Alabama’s Dothan public schools that disproportionately push African Americans and students with disabilities out of school for minor misconduct.
On the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group of about 50 volunteers organized by SPLC on Campus conducted a voter registration drive in Alabama’s Russell and Lee counties,
A poultry processing company in Guntersville, Alabama, ignored worker complaints about dangerous and unsanitary working conditions, ultimately firing two whistleblowers, according to SPLC complaints filed with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
A federal judge ruled this week that Alabama officials must abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage despite contrary statements by the Alabama Supreme Court– a victory for the SPLC and other civil rights groups that fought to secure marriage equality in the state.
