Even while the system seemed immobile or retrograde, the criminal justice reform movement has been steadily building local programs. Now, as the opportunity for reform opens back up at the federal level, a robust infrastructure is in place to speed implementation.
As part of an ongoing series called “Civil Discourse 101,” Teen Vogue has joined with Amnesty International USA to provide a valuable platform for questions from American teenagers about contemporary issues.
ACLU staffers question the decision to defend the NRA in a New York lawsuit, prompting renewed reflection on the organization’s role in a post-Trump activist landscape.
It’s not every day when the ACLU and the bail bond industry are on the same side, but, even as California moves to abolish bail, the way it is doing so leaves bail abolition advocates aghast.
An ACLU study of migrant children arriving to the US during the Obama years reveals a disturbing pattern of abuse and neglect by US customs officials, including physical abuse in more than one in four cases.
In yet another sign of environmental retrenchment, the US environmental protection agency claims there is “no causal connection” between a 4-million-ton coal dump and the ill health suffered by the mostly Black citizens of the small community of Uniontown, Alabama.
As youths across the US demonstrate their determination to be a part of the civic conversation, civil rights groups like the ACLU are stepping in where schools have left gaps to educate students about their rights in a protest environment.
Upon learning that a seminal book explaining the racist underpinnings of America’s criminal justice system was banned from prisons, the ACLU took immediate action to get it reinstated.
On Saturday, the ACLU premiered their own entry at the Sundance Film Festival, a set of three animated shorts on mass incarceration.
The fruits of its labor via rage fundraising in 2017 give the national civil liberties organization the firepower it needs to help lead the resistance to Trumpism in 2018.
