Agency loses suit in document fightATLANTA - The state Department of Corrections has agreed to give the Southern Center for Human Rights 1,000 pages of documents after the group sued during its probe into a northwest Georgia prison.The Department...

...said Sara Totonchi, executive director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, which monitors prison violence...letting up," Sara Geraghty, an attorney with the Southern Center, said. "(DOC) is failing to realize the severity...

...the business manager of the agency's Sandersville facility for theft.But Melanie Velez, an attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights, said those problems are why the reports of abuse need to be released."The legislature should not...

...increasing number of medical reprieves to people in prison," said Melanie Velez, an attorney with Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights who focuses on challenging prison and jail conditions. "It's a fiscally sound move and it's...

...is "a little greater than the difference between night and day," said Stephen Bright, a senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights.Critics have called the long delays excuses with the ultimate goal of abolishing the death penalty...

...put up with and encounter with regard to the Capital Defender Office."Stephen Bright, the senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights, defended the office before Craig last year."Judge Roper and other judges are upset when final...

...drug use and criminal activity. Democrats said the measure places an unfair burden on the poor.Gerry Weber of the Southern Center for Human Rights said the organization is prepared to file a lawsuit over the issue, but not until it is put into...

...prisoners last year to plan a statewide protest seeking better work and living conditions.The lawsuit filed by the Southern Center for Human Rights claims the attacks took place in August 2010 by officers at Hays State Prison in northwest Georgia...

...Grubbs but asserted that the defense team is still on track.Stephen Bright, the president and senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights and a professor at Yale Law School, faced tough questioning by Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Craig...

...from Senate Democratic Whip Vincent Fort of Atlanta and Sara Totonchi, executive director of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights."The courts and the parole board have failed to use their power to prevent this imminent miscarriage...