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ACLU recommendations for “A Call to Action for Juvenile Justice”
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists and members and 54 affiliates nationwide, we are recommending actions that the new president and the next Congress must take to reform the nation’s broken juvenile justice system.
11/4/2009 | Women's Rights
Photos from the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex (Brownwood Texas)
11/4/2009 | Prisoners' Rights, Women's Rights
ACLU Statement for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Hearing
11/2/2009 | Free Speech, Women's Rights
Court Upholds Right Of Scientists And Patients To Challenge Gene Patents
10/29/2009 | Children's Rights, Juvenile Justice
Pivotal Juvenile Justice Legislation Passes First Hurdle
10/24/2009 | Drug Law Reform
ACLU Honors Regina Kelly, Plaintiff In Landmark Civil Rights Case, With Baldwin Medal Of Liberty Award
10/20/2009 | Abortion, Immigration Discrimination
Court Rules that Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can No Longer Block Prisoners' Access To Abortion Care
11/3/2009 | Sentencing and Penalties
ESPN Documentary to Explore Crack Disparity’s Misguided Origins
11/4/2009 | Women's Rights
Photos from the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex (Brownwood Texas)
11/4/2009 | Prisoners' Rights, Women's Rights
ACLU Statement for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Hearing
11/3/2009 | Criminal Justice
ACLU Letter of Supports for H.R. 1412, the Justice Integrity Act of 2009
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The ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) are bringing a landmark case on behalf of researchers, pathologists, breast cancer and women’s health groups, and individual women affected by the patents on two genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. It's wrong for companies to own the rights to pieces of the human genome.
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Breast Cancer and Patenting Human Genes
Screening of the award-winning PBS documentary, “In the Family” followed by a panel discussion surrounding the ACLU’s lawsuit challenging patents on genes ...

