Resource: J.A. v. Barbour

By: Southern Poverty Law Center

July 11, 2007

Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the state of Mississippi in federal court to stop the physical and sexual abuse of teenage girls at the state’s Columbia Training School and compel the state to provide federally required mental health and rehabilitative treatment to girls confined there.

https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/ja-et-al-v-barbour-et-al