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Southern Center for Human Rights
Founded at
Atlanta, Georgia
Type
non-profit organization
Purpose
civil and human rights
Location
Georgia Alabama South Carolina
Key people
Stephen Bright (former director and president)
The Southern Center for Human Rights is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to enforcing the civil and human rights of people in the criminal justice system in the South. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it has won cases in several states in the southeastern United States, including Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina.[1]
The Center’s legal work includes representing prisoners in challenges to unconstitutional conditions and practices in prisons and jails; challenging systemic failures in the legal representation of poor people in the criminal courts; and representing people facing death penalty who otherwise would have no representation. Alabama is the only state that does not provide legal representation to people on death row.[2]
The Center's former director and president, Stephen Bright, was lauded in 2001 by Nat Hentoff in the Village Voice.[3] In May 2004, the Center was highlighted in a New York Times op-ed piece which compared treatment of prisoners in Georgia to abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.[4]
^"Southern Center for Human Rights". Retrieved March 31, 2022.
^"Southern Center for Human Rights". Retrieved March 31, 2022.
^Hentoff, Nat (January 2001). "Winter Solstice Tributes". The Village Voice. Village Voice LLC. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
^Herbert, Bob (May 31, 2004). "America's Abu Ghraibs". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
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