Press Releases
about Prisoners' Rights
Dec 02, 2020
Connecticut Vaccine Rollout Must Include Incarcerated People
HARTFORD, Conn. – Ahead of Governor Ned Lamont’s press conference regarding Connecticut’s COVID-19 vaccination roll-out plans, the ACLU of Connecticut sent a letter today rem...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Oct 28, 2020
Connecticut Department of Correction In Violation of COVID-19 Lawsuit Settlement
HARTFORD –In a letter to lawyers for the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC), the ACLU of Connecticut announced “systemic patterns of non-compliance by the Department of...
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
Oct 21, 2020
ACLU Lawsuit Seeks Information on Federal Government’s Failed Response to COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the District of Columbia, Williams & Connolly LLP, and attorney David Sobel filed suit today against the Federal Bu...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
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 qu...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Sep 16, 2020
Reaction to Department of Corrections Transfer of COVID Unit from Northern Correctional Institution to MacDougall Correctional
HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut Department of Correction today announced that it would close the COVID-19 unit at Northern Correctional Institution, the state’s supermax pris...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
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