The mission of the Southern Center for Human Rights is "to challenge the misuse of the criminal justice system to target and control poor people of color," says its director, Lisa Kung. The center exerts a disproportionate influence for a small public interest law firm whose nine lawyers' combined salary is less than that of the average partner at a big firm. Because the center receives no government money, it's one of the rare public interest groups that can bring class actions against prisons and jails.
June 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Lisa L. Kung joined the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta as a staff attorney in 1999 because it was the only public interest law firm in the South filing lawsuits for poor people caught up in the criminal justice system.
“The criminal justice system in the South is a different beast. The rate of incarceration is off the charts compared to the rest of the country,” she said.
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