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Civil Rights Advocates React to Senate Passage of Lombardo Crime Bill
After a Lifetime Apart, COVID-19 Prison Release Reunites Mother and Daughter
As Chalana received the news, they started cheering, and caused such an uproar that the correctional staff had to reprimand them. That’s when it finally clicked for Chalana — after 15 years in prison, she was finally going home. Chalana immediately contacted her daughter.
New Model Shows Reducing Jail Population will Lower COVID-19 Death Toll for All of Us
The Trump administration optimistically projects that “substantially under” 100,000 people will die from COVID-19 in the United States. Horrific as that statistic is, a new model suggests it could be a huge underestimate.
Defying Medical Experts, Lawmakers are Weaponizing COVID-19 to Restrict Abortion Access
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
A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform
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.
Apple and Google Announced a Coronavirus Tracking System. How Worried Should We Be?
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.
Isolation, Before and During a Pandemic
Many communities the ACLU works with were familiar with social isolation long before COVID-19 arrived. Here's what you can learn from them.
Federal Wardens Must Immediately Flatten the Curve in our Nation’s Prisons
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.
I’m Queer and I’ve Been in Solitary. Ellen Isn’t Experiencing What I Did.
Being queer in prison isn’t sitting on your outdoor furniture in your finest silk.
“They Don’t Care if You Die”: Immigrants in ICE Detention Fear the Spread of COVID-19
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.
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