Announcements and Press Statements
- Press Release: Georgia Legislature Passes Cruel Anti-Homeless Bill
- Press Release: Georgia Civic and Social Justice Organizations Condemn Illegal War on Iran, U.S. Indiscriminate Killing of Iranian Citizens
- Press Release: Advocacy Groups Demand ICE Stop Holding People in Inhumane Conditions at Atlanta’s ICE Field Office
- Press Release: Georgia Advocacy Groups, Organizers, and Impacted Community Members Sound Alarm as a Notorious South Georgia Jail Is Poised to Be Used as an ICE Prison Again
- Press Release: Third Death By Suicide In Georgia’s ICE Detention Center Advocates Call For Immediate Action to Close Stewart Detention Center
- Press Advisory: Defending Rights & Dissent and Project South sue DHS & FBI for “Cop City” records
- Statement: A Call for Sanctuary Universities
- Statement on Governor Brian Kemp Signing HB 1105
- Press Release: GLAHR, Project South & Allies to hold 3 Days of Action Against 1105
- Press Release: Civil Rights Orgs Denounce Violent Mass Arrests at Emory University
- Press Release: CAIR-Georgia, Project South, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR), Partners to Denounce Anti-Immigrant Legislation
- Press Release: DHS and ICE Ordered By Court to Conduct New Searches for Info on Abuse and Wrongful Deportation of Cameroonians
- Press Release: Project South & Diverse Coalition of Organizations Says “No to HB 30”
- Press Release: Settlement In Forced Labor Case Against Private Prison Company Operating Immigration Detention Center
- Project South and 30+ Georgia & National Organizations Sign Letter to DOJ and BOP to Request Immediate Transfer of Jamil Al-Amin
- Press Conference Calling The Biden Administration To Shut Down Stewart Detention Center
- SPLC and Project South Seek Appeal of Decision Denying Class Certification in Forced Labor Lawsuit
- Death of Salvador Vargas (61) Enrages Community, Elicits Immediate Government Action to Close Fatal Prisons in ICE Detention System
- Press Release: Newly Obtained Documents Detail U.S. Government Officials’ Racist Views of Black Migrants
- Press Release: Senate Investigation Confirms Medical Abuse of Detained Women at Irwin County Detention Center
- Project South, Government Accountability Project and 73 organizations Call on DHS OIG to Issue Findings
- Press Release: Complaint Against Stewart Detention Center
- Project South and Community Health Law Partnership Clinic Release New Findings about Local Law Enforcement Collaboration with ICE in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina
- New report details Biden’s broken promises on ending the use of private prisons in federal incarceration and immigration detention
- Biden to Break More Promises by Making Georgia the Private Prison Capital of the US with Geo Mega Immigrant Detention Center
- One Year after “Death Flights,” Civil Rights Groups Press for Information on Torture and Deportation of Cameroonian Refugees
- New Report Details Abuse and Trauma of Immigrant Women in ICE Detention in Georgia
- Project South, Penn Law Transnational Legal Clinic & the Detention Watch Network to Testify Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Immigrant Human Rights Abuses
- CREW, Project South and National Immigration Project release new ICE records on gynecological abuse
- After years of advocacy, ICE announces it’s cutting the Irwin County Detention Center contract—a huge win for the immigrants’ rights community
- After years of advocacy, no immigrant women are currently detained at the Irwin County Detention Center
- Following Government’s Forced ‘Death Flight’ Deportations and Torture of Black Immigrants, Advocates Seek Answers
- First death in ICE custody under the Biden Administration
- Legal Filing Reveals Growing Number of Women Experienced Medical Abuse in ICE Custody
- Groups File Urgent Request with United Nations on Behalf of Immigrant Women in Georgia Detention Center
- Government Accountability Project and Project South Condemn Deportation of ICE Medical Abuse Survivors
- Civil Rights Advocates Win Reversal of Discriminatory City Utility Policies in Court Settlement
- CREW, NIPNLG and Project South sue ICE over forced sterilization records
- Government Accountability Project and Project South Send Letter to Congress on Behalf of Whistleblower Client
- Groups File FOIA Request to Demand Transparency and Accountability for Medical Abuse of People at ICE Detention Facilities
- Reported death in detention this week, whistleblower revelations last week — No one is safe in ICE custody
- Whistleblowing Nurse from Detention Center in Georgia Reports Unsafe Practices that Promote the Spread of COVID-19 in ICE Detention
- Advocates decry ICE’s ‘inaction and ruthless policies’
- “The epitome of greed”: Private Prison Corporation Asks Immigrants to Bear Cost of Their Detention
- Georgia’s Racial Justice and Human Rights Groups Rebuke ICE Guidance
- Another COVID-19 tragedy: ICE must release all people from detention now
- Immigrants in Georgia ICE detention center sound the alarm, demand immediate release as state becomes epicenter of COVID-19 crisis in Southeast
- Eleventh Circuit Rules Federal Anti-Trafficking Law Can Apply to Private Immigrant Detention Corporations
- Immigrant Advocates Strongly Oppose Anti-Sanctuary Bill in General Assembly
- Immigrants’ rights groups hold press conference and graveside service to remember deceased immigrant buried by ICE in unmarked grave
- Stirring testimony from inside the Stewart Detention Center underscores ongoing abuse and racist judge
- Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Policies Unlawfully Restricting Access to Basic Utility Services
- Georgia Civil Rights Groups Support Federal Ethics Complaint
- Human Rights Groups to Deliver ‘Veto SB 15’ Petition to Kemp’s Office
- Federal Court Grants Win, Allows People Detained in Stewart Detention Center to Pursue Forced Labor Claims Against CoreCivic
- Human Rights Groups Call on Georgia Counties to Stop Illegally Collaborating with ICE
- People Detained in Stewart Detention Center to Pursue Forced Labor Claims Against CoreCivic
- Freedom University and Project South Release Report “A Dream Deferred” on the Consequences of Restricting Undocumented Student Access to Higher Education in Georgia
- Human Rights Groups Release Report on Conditions of the Atlanta City Detention Center
- Groups will hold Atlanta rally following Supreme Court Decision in Muslim Ban Case
- Reported Suicide at Georgia Immigration Detention Center
- Project South Calls for End to Discriminatory Utilities Policies in Southern Cities
- Rights Groups Call upon the United Nations for an Investigation into Rights Violations at U.S. Immigration Detention Facilities
- Private Prison Company Uses Forced Labor of Detained Immigrants in Georgia to Boost Profits
- Immigrant and Refugee Rights Groups Hold Press Conference to Denounce Anti-Immigrant Bill, SB 452
- Third death in Georgia immigrant detention centers in less than a year
- 70 Georgia and National Organizations Ask the Georgia Congressional Delegation to Investigate Conditions at Georgia Immigration Detention Centers
- Human Rights Groups Seek Hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Civil Rights Groups To Host People’s Tribunal, The People vs. Muslim Ban, At GSU College of Law on Oct. 9th
- Advocates Celebrate Victory: Protecting our Immigrant and Refugee Communities
- Advocates Call for Closure of Georgia Immigration Detention Centers
- Civil Rights Groups Challenge Policies Restricting Access to Basic Utility Services
- Human Rights Groups Release Report Focused on Georgia Immigration Detention Centers
- Georgia Detention Watch hosts Concert for the Incarcerated Calling for the Closure of Atlanta City Detention Center
- Advocacy and Faith Groups Hold Press Conference to Respond to Anti-Immigrant Bills
- A News Conference in Reaction to Executive Order on Immigration
- The Georgia January 20th Coalition Launches Action to Demand that Atlanta Declare Itself a Sanctuary City
- Atlanta for Abolition: Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex
- Project South’s Azadeh Shahshahani to join International Tribunal for Democracy in Brazil
- Justice for Berta! Atlanta Rally to Protest Murder of Honduran Activist
- Georgia Detention Watch Calls for the Immediate Release of the Detained Stateless Palestinian, Alaa Yasin
- Human Rights Groups Voice Demand for Closure of the Stewart Detention Center on 7th Anniversary of the Death of Roberto Medina Martinez
- More than Fifty Georgia Elected Officials, Faith, Community, and Labor Leaders Condemn ICE Raids