GEORGIA RESOURCE CENTER

The Georgia Resource Center was established in 1988 through a partnership with the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court, the federal judiciary, and Georgia State University College of Law, to address the crisis in the lack of appellate representation for people on Georgia's death row. Georgia is one of only two states that does not provide counsel for death row prisoners in post-conviction proceedings. (Alabama is the other state.) The Resource Center was created to provide attorneys - either through direct representation or recruiting and assisting volunteer counsel - for all of Georgia's death row prisoners in habeas corpus proceedings. The Georgia Resource Center is the only organization in Georgia with this mandate. The Center advocates on behalf of every person on death row, following direct appeal through final resolution of their case. The Center's work often results in the reversal of a client's conviction or death sentence, but even when it does not, the Center..

Primary location: Atlanta United States