Disability Rights and the Criminal Legal System
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As Omicron Surges, People in Jail and Detention are More Vulnerable Than Ever
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ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Review Georgia Law Permitting Executions of Persons with Intellectual Disability
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We Are Holding Arizona Accountable for the Needless Suffering and Deaths of Incarcerated People
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This Place Isn't Meant to Help You Get Better
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What's at Stake
The ACLU supports reducing the use of the United States’ jail and prison systems to warehouse people with mental and physical disabilities. We support efforts within the criminal legal system to identify and work with a person’s disability in rehabilitative efforts.
The ACLU supports reducing the use of the United States’ jail and prison systems to warehouse people with mental and physical disabilities. We support efforts within the criminal legal system to identify and work with a person’s disability in rehabilitative efforts.
