NEW YORK, Nov. 20 -- The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following news release: * * * Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama's majority-Black prisons * * * Montgomery, AL - Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought their effort to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude in Alabama's prisons to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. They are challenging the Montgomery County Circuit Court's dismissal of their lawsuit, in whic  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release: MOBILE, Ala.--In lower Alabama, four people with deep ties to their community--the co-owner of a small-town newspaper, her reporter, a school board member, and a school board employee--found themselves in jail, all facing the same unusual criminal charge: sharing grand jury secrets. Rather than let a political disagreement be settled at the ballot box, a district attorney and sheriff waged a campaign of  more