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Feb 08, 2021
ACLU of West Virginia Report Examines Alarmingly High Regional Jail Death Rate, Calls for Reduction in Overcrowding
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia has some of the nation’s deadliest jails, with alarmingly high rates of suicide, homicide, and drug overdose deaths, according to a new report...
Issue Areas: Prisoners' Rights
Dec 11, 2020
Dec 03, 2020
Advocates and Public Health Experts Call on Carney and DOC to Make Urgent Changes to Mitigate COVID Outbreak
WILMINGTON, Del. — On Tuesday, December 1, the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) announced 471 positive cases in DOC facilities between incarcerated people, correctional st...
Issue Areas: Prisoners' Rights
Oct 27, 2020
ACLU Files Class Action Lawsuit to Protect Incarcerated People at the Deadliest Federal Prison
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In response to intensifying COVID-19 outbreaks at the federal prison complex in Butner, North Carolina, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Ca...
Issue Areas: Prisoners' Rights
Sep 18, 2020
Civil Rights Organizations Demand Alabama Department of Corrections End Unconstitutional COVID-19 Quarantine
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is violating the Eighth Amendment in their treatment of COVID-19 positive incarcerated people who are being quarant...
Issue Areas: Prisoners' Rights
Jun 25, 2020
New ACLU and PPI Report Shows Gross Negligence in States’ Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic in Prisons and Jails
NEW YORK — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Prison Policy Initiative released a 50-state report entitled “Failing Grades: States’ Responses to COVID-19 in Ja...
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