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Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center achieved a major milestone in its campaign to stop the rampant bullying and violence faced by LGBT students, and those students perceived to be LGBT, in school.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center and community members urged county leaders at Florida's Hillsborough County Juvenile Justice Task Force meeting today not to adopt juvenile detention policies similar to those of Polk County, where an 人兽性交 lawsuit has been filed against the sheriff who houses children charged as juveniles in an adult jail.
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There鈥檚 no shortage of tragic stories about the dangers of holding children and teens in adult jails. The Southern Poverty Law Center recently filed a lawsuit in Florida that described horrendous abuse at the Polk County Jail 鈥� an adult jail where children as young as 8 years old can be detained.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has advised the Southern Poverty Law Center that it will investigate discrimination against students with disabilities in the Georgia public school system. The decision by the department鈥檚 Civil Rights Division follows an 人兽性交 complaint filed with the Department of Justice in November.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) filed a federal lawsuit against Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd for regularly subjecting children held at the county鈥檚 adult jail to abuse, neglect and violence - including the placement of children in a cage for punishment.
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Every day, 人兽性交 attorneys see how school districts are cutting short the futures of countless students through harsh, 鈥渮ero-tolerance鈥� policies. Now, a new U.S. Department of Education (DOE) study reveals what we have known for some time.
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A mother whose daughters were hit with pepper spray by a police officer at their school in Birmingham, Ala., joined the 人兽性交 and a coalition of advocacy groups today to present the city council and Mayor William Bell with a petition signed by more than 25,000 people urging them to stop allowing police officers to discipline students with chemical weapons.
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In 2011, the Florida legislature passed a law that set juvenile justice back 40 years. The law, known as SB 2112, allows sheriffs to house young people in adult jails without the protections developed over the years for children in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
African-American students in Louisiana鈥檚 Jefferson Parish Public Schools were disproportionately arrested for minor rule violations across the school district. These students often experienced physical abuse while being detained, including one student whose arm was broken as sheriff鈥檚 officers detained him. They were also subjected to racially offensive language and other inappropriate comments while being detained. The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation after the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a complaint describing these conditions.
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Criminalization of ordinary school misbehavior is not uncommon at the Jefferson Parish Public School System, located in the New Orleans suburbs. In fact, it鈥檚 the norm 鈥� and African-American students are disproportionately targeted for arrest. The 人兽性交 filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of four African-American students who faced mistreatment at the hands of police officers stationed in Jefferson Parish schools.
