From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (http://www.nrcat.org): June is Torture Awareness Month, and you can join other people of faith and conscience nationwide in activities that focus on NRCAT’s founding message: Torture is a Moral Issue. Here are some … Continued
From Families Against Mandatory Minimums (http://famm.org/): Attorney General Jeff Sessions has given new marching orders to federal prosecutors across the country instructing them to seek the most serious charges in every drug case. When mandatory minimums were first passed in the 1980s, … Continued
From the Sentencing Project (http://www.sentencingproject.org): Some recent studies have found that Ban the Box reforms, which generally require employers to delay inquiring about criminal backgrounds, may disadvantage job applicants of color who do not have criminal histories. This is because … Continued
From the Sentencing Project (http://www.sentencingproject.org): Political leaders should end harmful criminal justice practices that criminalize poverty and send undocumented residents into the deportation pipeline, according to a new report by Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project, the Immigration Defense Project, … Continued
When you visit your local LUSH Cosmetics store over the next 10 days, you’ll have a chance to support their campaign to highlight flaws of the death penalty and call for abolition. LUSH is selling an exclusive bath balm called … Continued
Pictured: The shooting death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, captured by a civilian’s mobile phone camera. By Molly Tack-Hooper, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Since 2013, the ACLU of Pennsylvania has been fighting to … Continued
In a 2015 ACLU-PA report — Guilty Property: How Law Enforcement Takes $1 Million in Cash from Innocent Philadelphians Every Year — and Gets Away with It — we argued for specific reforms to fix Pennsylvania’s broken and unfair civil … Continued
A New Pa. Senate Bill would do nothing to reform civil asset forfeiture practices. Photo via Occupy.com. By Andy Hoover, Communications Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania In the coming days or weeks, you may hear about the Pennsylvania … Continued
From Families Against Mandatory Minimums (http://famm.org/): FAMM this week called on Congress to expand the federal compassionate release program. This program is designed to let sick, elderly, and other prisoners who pose little risk to public safety get out of … Continued