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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.
The Added Importance of the Census, in Light of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for everyone to be counted in this year’s census.
Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have a High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy
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.
Don't Neglect Nevada's Incarcerated Youth in COVID-19 Response
Unprecedented measures have been taken to protect youth throughout the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the response is leaving a group of young people behind: The over 160 Nevada youth held in the custody of state-run facilities and thousands more held in county and local detention centers and camps.
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