SCHR: Legal and Advocacy Resources

Attorneys at the Southern Center for Human Rights represent individuals facing the death penalty, as well as prisoners in class-action lawsuits that challenge unconstitutional treatment in prisons and jails. However, due to our limited resources, we are not able to take all the cases we hear about. Generally, our cases are limited to Georgia and Alabama. If you are looking for assistance about a prison-related matter in another state, please see the lists below for organizations in your state that may be able to assist you. If you are looking for assistance with a death penalty case in another state, contact Christopher Adams at cadams@schr.org and he can refer you to the appropriate organization in your state.

Legal resources and support services organizations by state

• Legal assistance organizations
• U.S. District Courts
• Law libraries
• Support service organizations

General legal or other resources for prisoners

• Filing a federal lawsuit about inmate-on-inmate assault.
• Prisoner self-help legal manuals.
• Non-legal and religious books available for prisoners.

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Legal and advocacy resources for prisoners in Georgia

• How to advocate for a loved one who is in prison  in Georgia
• Filing a lawsuit about problems with medical care in a Georgia prison or jail
• Georgia parole information sheet
• Parole reconsideration intervals for Georgia prisoners with a life sentence: Jones v. Garner decision

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Legal and advocacy resources for prisoners in Alabama

• How to advocate for a loved one who is in prison in Alabama
• Filing a lawsuit about problems with medical care in an Alabama prison or jail

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The Ku Klux Klan demonstrates outside the prison at Jackson, Ga., as Roosevelt Green is executed.

SCHR represents Mr. Green's co-defendant, Carzell Moore, and called the Grand Dragon of the Georgia Klan, Ed Stephens (above), at a hearing challenging racial discrimination in the infliction of the death penalty and the display of the Confederate battle flag in Georgia courtrooms. This picture was introduced into evidence at the hearing.