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| Founded at | Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Type | non-profit organization |
| Purpose | civil andhuman rights |
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Key people | Stephen Bright(former director and president) |
| Website | www |
TheSouthern Center for Human Rights is anon-profit public interest law firm dedicated to enforcing thecivil andhuman rights of people in the criminal justice system in the South. Based inAtlanta,Georgia, it has won cases in several states in the southeastern United States, includingGeorgia,Alabama, andSouth 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.[1]
The Center's former director and president,Stephen Bright, was lauded in 2001 byNat Hentoff in theVillage Voice.[2] In May 2004, the Center was highlighted in aNew York Timesop-ed piece which compared treatment of prisoners in Georgia toabuse of prisoners atAbu Ghraib prison in Iraq.[3]
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