Press Releases
about Prisoners' Rights
May 06, 2020
ACLU of Alabama Statement on Mobile County Jails COVID-19 Testing
Today, the Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran and Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson announced a temporary testing site outside of the county jail after 38 incarcerated people and 30 staff...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
May 01, 2020
ACLU Statement Calls for the Release of Pregnant People from Prisons and Jails
WASHINGTON — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order today to release pregnant people who have less than six months in their sentence from New York prisons.
In resp...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Criminal Law Reform
Apr 29, 2020
ACLU Files FOIA Requests for Trump and Governors’ Knowledge of Potential COVID-19 Outbreaks in Prisons and Jails
The ACLU's Federal FOIA Gains the Support of the Council of Prison Locals Which Currently Represents 30,000 Correctional Officers
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Apr 23, 2020
ACLU Statement on Oakdale Prison Suit Dismissal
WASHINGTON — Last night, a federal judge dismissed our class action lawsuit against Warden Rodney Myers and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Michael Carvajal, filed o...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Apr 22, 2020
ACLU of Montana: Correctional Facilities Must Be Transparent in their Response to Possible COVID-19 Outbreak in Montana’s Prisons and Jails
Public Records Requests Seek Information Regarding Testing and Preventive Measures Undertaken to Address COVID-19 Pandemic
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Apr 22, 2020
New Model Shows COVID-19 Death Toll is 100,000 Higher Than Current Projections
Failure to reduce jail population is the Achilles heel for the efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Issue Areas:
Smart Justice
Prisoners' Rights
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