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States across the country have issued orders to postpone non-essential surgeries and other medical procedures. Most have left it up to doctors and other health care professionals to determine what is “essential” on a case-by-case basis. Medical experts agree that abortion services are time-sensitive

Marijuana arrests clog the criminal legal system with people who should not be there. This puts even more people in harm’s way as COVID-19 threatens to devastate jails and prisons, where the virus can spread rapidly. Officials must respond by reducing both arrests and the incarcerated population.

A well-designed tool could offer public health benefit, but a poorly designed one could pose unnecessary and significant risks to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.

Many communities the ACLU works with were familiar with social isolation long before COVID-19 arrived. Here's what you can learn from them.

350 incarcerated persons and almost 200 Bureau of Prison staff have COVID-19. The wardens overseeing America's 122 federal prisons have no time to spare.

Being queer in prison isn’t sitting on your outdoor furniture in your finest silk.

Across the country, there are nearly 36,000 people in the custody of ICE on an average day. Some are in county jails and state prisons, others are in facilities run by private contractors like the GEO Group. Many are asylum seekers who have asked the U.S. to protect them from persecution abroad.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for everyone to be counted in this year’s census.

To be true angels during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, tech companies providing free remote learning apps should disable features that spy on students and suck up their private, personal information.