Georgia allows gangs to exert improper influence on prison life, including controlling entire housing units and operating unlawful and dangerous schemes in and from the prisons, harming both incarcerated people and the public. The Civil Rights Division’s Special Litigation Section conducted the investiga...
Since Reconstruction began in 1865, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division says that Houston County has only had one Black county commissioner. That is despite 31% of the county being Black as of the 2020 Census. “The current method of election the Houston County Board of Commissioners dilutes the...
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Attorney General Merrick Garland, Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division head Kristen Clarke, and others members of the department made the announcement about the lawsuit Friday morning. The lawsuit targets Georgia's overhaul of its elections, which was signed by Georgia Republican Gov. B...
“Our findings report lays bare the horrific and inhumane conditions that people are confined to inside Georgia’s state prison system,” Assistant Attorney GeneralKristen Clarkeof the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in the statement. ...
The Justice Department is suing the state of Georgia over its voting law, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Civil Rights division chief Kristen Clarke announced Friday, arguing that the state is violating federal law by inhibiting voting rights on the basis of race. ...
that the Justice Department is committed to prosecuting motel operators and other landlords who misuse and abuse their position of power over tenants to compel them to engage in commercial sex acts,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. ...
The letter requested that the FBI and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division lead the investigation into the shooting of Arbery, a black man, on Feb. 23. Two white men, Travis and Greg McMichael, were charged this week with murder and aggravated assault after a video of the ...
Jerry Gonzalez, chief executive of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, compared the bills to the notorious voting restrictions that kept people of color from casting ballots in the South before the civil rights movement ushered in the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s. ...
The Dublin Division can be found 100 North Franklin St., Dublin, GA 31021. The phone number for the Dublin Division is (478) 272-2121. The Savannah Division operates out of 8 Southern Oaks Ct. Savannah, GA 31405, and can be reached by calling (912) 650-4020. ...