After meeting with visitors, prisoners in a Michigan prison are forced to remove all of their clothing and spread open their vaginal lips as a guard peers into their ... Read More
Recently, a mother in South Carolina reached out to the ACLU for help. She was pregnant, and although she had had two prior cesarean surgeries, she wished to attempt ... Read More
In recent years, the number of public schools segregating their students by sex has ballooned, despite mounting evidence that single-sex programs don’t ... Read More
Just outside the town of Ponce, on Puerto Rico’s southern coast, is a prison for girls. Although the place is named “Center for Detention and ... Read More
Women's History Month and International Women's Day celebrate the strides toward dignity and equality that women have made around the world. They are also a chance ... Read More
Today, an appeals court in New Jersey handed down a major win for the ACLU and its clients — a group of women prisoners who stood up against cruel and ... Read More
Today, a federal appeals court in Manhattan heard oral argument in a case challenging the so-called "anti-prostitution pledge," which is part of a law ... Read More
In December 2007, the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) moved about 40 women prisoners from the state's sole women's prison to a unit within an enormous ... Read More
If you ran a small public health or workers' rights organization with a shoestring budget, what on earth could make you refuse to take a lot of money from the ... Read More
