Southern Center for Human Rights
- Southern Center for Human Rights
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. It is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and has won cases in several states in the southeastern United States, including Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. 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 the death penalty who otherwise would have no representation.
The Center's director, Steve Bright, was lauded in 2001 by Nat Hentoff in the Village Voice [cite news
last = Hentoff
first = Nat
coauthors =
title = Winter Solstice Tributes
work = The Village Voice
pages =
language = English
publisher = Village Voice LLC
date = January 2001
url =http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0052,hentoff,21006,6.html
accessdate = 2007-12-21 ] . 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 [cite news
last =Herbert
first =Bob
coauthors =
title =America's Abu Ghraibs
work = New York Times
pages =
language = English
publisher = The New York Times Company
date = May 31, 2004
url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E0D71F3EF932A05756C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
accessdate = 2007-12-21 ] .
References
External links
* [http://www.schr.org/ Southern Center for Human Rights]
* [http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/8582.htm Ratings] from Charity Navigator
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