Join advocates, leaders, clients, and community members in Atlanta for our Golden Jubilee Weekend, April 30th to May 2nd, a special series of events honoring five decades of impact and recommitting ourselves to the fight for equality, dignity, and justice in the Deep South.
2026 is the Southern Center Center for Human Rights’ 50th Anniversary. We are celebrating, remembering, and fortifying for the future! Be part of it all!
At the Southern Center for Human Rights, we remains committed to decriminalizing race and poverty in America’s Deep South. This session, our advocacy and policy priorities reflect that commitment. Read on for an overview of our policy priorities, advocacy tools, and community advocacy days.
From community wins to policy breakthroughs, it’s clear that every step forward is built on dedication, persistence, and the belief that justice is worth fighting for. We invite you to revisit some of the defining moments of this year in our 2025 Year in Review.
Lawsuit on behalf of women with serious mental illness who were left to languish in their cells under deplorable conditions.
Ten years ago, the Southern Center for Human Rights launched Project Freedom — an initiative to challenge extreme prison sentences and bring people home. What began with one man’s story became a decade-long movement for equality, dignity, and justice.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is deeply grateful that HB 123 has been signed into law and will protect those with intellectual disability from being sentenced to death.
Passed in 2024, SB 63 exacerbates a two-tiered bail system where wealth determines who walks free and who languishes in jail.
Equality. Dignity. Justice.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South.
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Join SCHR in fighting for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty,
the criminalization of poverty, and racial injustice.
