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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 5:09pm
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is ... Read More

Georgia Chooses Path Toward Criminal Justice Reform; Oklahoma Misses an Opportunity

By Vanita Gupta, Center for Justice & Inimai Chettiar, ACLU at 1:51pm
This year, both Georgia and Oklahoma took up criminal justice reform, but ended up in two quite different places. Read More

ACLU Joins in Briefing Members of Congress on the Implications of Arizona v. U.S.

By Laura W. Murphy, Washington Legislative Office at 5:19pm
Today we let federal lawmakers know that Arizona’s racial profiling law, S.B. 1070, is about much more than just the state of Arizona and its immigrants. ... Read More

Just as We Suspected: Florida Saved Nothing by Drug Testing Welfare Applicants

By Rachel Bloom, ACLU at 1:52pm
Over 25 states introduced welfare drug testing legislation similar to Florida's this year. Read More

Newest Anti-Immigrant Law Will Further Damage Georgia

By Azadeh N. Shahshahani, ACLU Foundation of Georgia & Jonathan Blazer, ACLU at 1:44pm
Just when it seemed that Georgia was coming to grips with the damage caused by H.B. 87, the state's Arizona-inspired anti-immigrant law, some lawmakers are again ... Read More

States' Top Jurists Call for Criminal Justice Reform

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 4:45pm
Skyrocketing corrections budgets have fixed state lawmakers' attention on the problem of mass incarceration, and smart reform — reducing prison populations ... Read More

An Unlikely Ally in Fighting Anti-Immigrant Laws

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 2:49pm
A Republican leader who raises goats in Uvalda, Paul Bridges bucks the conservative trend as an outspoken critic of the state's harsh immigration law. Read More

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Rebecca McCray, Criminal Law Reform Project at 4:20pm
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate ... Read More

Why Cops Shouldn't Be in Classrooms

By Taurean K. Brown, Racial Justice Program at 5:56pm
If we were all honest with ourselves, I am sure that we could recall a momentary lapse into delinquency at some point in our childhood, whether it was throwing a ... Read More

Fewer Americans Supporting the Death Penalty

By Brian Stull, Capital Punishment Project at 12:55pm
Is it that the State of Georgia executed an innocent man last month? Is it the dawning realization that the risk of executing an innocent person exists in many cases ... Read More
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