Southern Poverty Law Center

Two advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Alabama prison system, claiming the state is failing to provide basic medical and mental health care…

Alabama Department of Corrections officials are refuting a report by a human rights organization that criticizes health care in state prisons.Department…

Gov. Robert Bentley has announced an attempt to overhaul the state's severely overcrowded prison system.Bentley said Tuesday the state's prisons are…

Alabama has agreed to pay another $230,000 to civil rights groups that sued over Alabama's immigration law.The agreement announced Monday brings the total…

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging an Alabama immigration law that requires state officials to post on the Internet the names of…

An Alabama group that monitors radical organizations says right-wing extremism is on the decline in the United States.The liberal Southern Poverty Law…

A federal judge says he will rule quickly on whether to throw out a lawsuit challenging Alabama's new tax credits for families that move their children…

Alabama's attorney general is telling a federal judge that blocking the new Alabama Accountability Act won't help students in failing public…

State attorneys are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center seeking to block a new state law allowing students to…

State lawmakers and education officials have filed a state lawsuit to have the Alabama Accountability Act ruled unconstitutional. The Montgomery…