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SPLC applauds Montgomery Council for repealing panhandling ban

On Tuesday the Montgomery City Council repealed an ordinance that criminalized panhandling, which had drawn protests from members of the clergy, homeless advocates and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The original ordinance was passed in July and required anyone cited or arrested for panhandling to serve a minimum two days in jail. Mayor Steven Reed … Continued
December 20, 2019

Federal judge concerned over prison staffing, undertrained fill-ins

A federal judge last week pressed attorneys representing the Alabama Department of Corrections about staffing problems that the plaintiff’s attorneys argued may run afoul of a court order to increase correctional officers in the state’s overcrowded, understaffed prisons.  U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in the Dec. 6 hearing, first reported by Alabama Daily News,  asked … Continued
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December 12, 2019

SPLC: Stephen Miller, another former Sessions staffer pushed anti-immigrant stories to Breitbart

In the second story in a series published Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center,  emails show that Trump senior advisor and former aide to then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, had ties to an anti-immigrant think-tank.  The emails also shows that Miller wasn’t the only Sessions staffer to have been pushing for anti-immigrant stories … Continued
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November 15, 2019

SPLC: Emails show Trump advisor, former Jeff Sessions staffer, Stephen Miller promoted white nationalism

Leaked emails show Stephen Miller, Trump senior advisor and former staffer for then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, promoted white nationalist ideas and racist immigration stories to a conservative journalist, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which broke the story on Tuesday.  The SPLC’s first story in a series on the more than 900 emails details … Continued
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November 14, 2019

Civil Rights Memorial commemorates 30th Anniversary with special events

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial with a special two-day event in November.  The Civil Rights Memorial, dedicated by the SPLC on Nov. 5, 1989, honors 40 people who were killed during the modern civil rights movement, a period framed by the 1954 Brown v. … Continued
October 29, 2019

SPLC releases special report claiming that Alabama’s Community Corrections system is flawed

Thursday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a special report that claims that Alabama’s community corrections pay-to-play model prioritizes making money over rehabilitation or public safety. The report, titled “Opportunity Costs: Unequal Justice in Alabama’s Community Corrections Programs,” is the first in a series analyzing what the SPLC sees as serious flaws within Alabama’s … Continued
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August 16, 2019