Since HRP's inception in 2004, the program has been responsible for researching human rights issues domestically and abroad and developing reports that have and continue to support the work of the ACLU. Our reports have covered topics such as mass incarceration, systemic racism, immigration, protest, and juvenile sentencing to name a few. In addition to having a direct impact on legal and political advocacy across the country, our reports center the stories and lived experiences of directly impacted people and have often contributed to positive changes for their communites.
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Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers
June 15, 2022
‘If I Wasn’t Poor, I Wouldn’t Be Unfit’: The Family Separation Crisis in the US Child Welfare System
November 17, 2022
Protesting During a Pandemic: State Responses During COVID-19
April 2021
Revoked: How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
July 2020
Set Up to Fail: Montana’s Probation and Parole Systems
September 2018
"You Miss So Much When You're Gone": The Lasting Harm of Jailing Mothers Before Trial in Oklahoma
September 2018
Defending Dissent: Towards State Practices that Project and Promote the Rights to Protest
June 2018
Freezing Out Justice: How Immigration Arrests at Courthouses are Undermining the Justice System
May 2018
A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt
February 2018
False Hope: How Parole Systems Fail Youth Serving Extreme Sentences
November 2016
Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the US
October 2016
Lethal In Disguise: The Health Consequences of Crowd-Control Weapons
March 2016
American Exile: Rapid Deportations that Bypass the Courtroom
December 2014
With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law and American Democracy
July 2014
A Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolen Offenses
November 2013
"Take Back the Streets": Repression and Criminalization of Protest Around the World
October 2013
Growing Up Locked Down: Youth Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons Across the United States
October 2012
Island of Impunity: Puerto Rico's Outlaw Police Force
June 2012
Victims of Complacency: The Ongoing Trafficking and Abuse of Third Country Nationals by U.S. Government Contractors
June 2012
Slamming the Courthouse Doors: Denial of Access to Justice and Remedy in America
December 2010
Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System
July 2010
The Persistence of Racial and Ethnic Profiling in the United States: A Follow-Up Report to the U.N. CERD
August 2009
Impairing Education: Corporal Punishment of Students with Disabilities in U.S. Public Schools
August 2009
Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity: Chilling Muslim Charitable Giving in the “War on Terrorism Financing”
June 2009
A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in U.S. Public Schools
August 2008
Soldiers of Misfortune: Abusive U.S. Military Recruitment and Failure to Protect Child Soldiers
May 2008
Race & Ethnicty in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice
December 2007
Broken Promises: 2 Years After Katrina
August 2007
Custody and Control: Conditions of Confinement in New York’s Juvenile Prisons for Girls
September 2006
Abandoned & Abused: Orleans Parish Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
August 2006
Witness to Abuse: Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law Since September 11
June 2005
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