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Biden's Clemency for Federal Prisoners Is Only Part of the Story Dec. 24, 2024
SAN DIEGO — There are three things you need to know about the media and how they approach anyt... Read More
Will Biden's Commutation Further Chill Clemency in Pennsylvania? Dec. 17, 2024
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro recently pointed out that "Governors and presidents have unique power... Read More
Incarceration Should Not Be a Death Sentence for Individuals Who Use Opioids Dec. 02, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The opioid epidemic has gripped communities for more than 20 years. From 1999 to 2022, nearly 727,00... Read More
How Biden Can Act Now To Limit Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Nov. 25, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
President-elect Donald Trump has made mass detention of immigrant communities a central part of his ... Read More
Biden Must Use Final Months in Office to Commute Federal Death Sentences Nov. 18, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
President-elect Donald Trump has chilling plans to use his second term to expand the federal death p... Read More
Susan Smith, Infamous Killer of Her Children, Is Where She Belongs Jul. 23, 2024
In the summer of 1994, O.J. Simpson engaged in his infamous low-speed chase with a parade of Los Ang... Read More
The Painful Reality of Being an Incarcerated Mother May. 13, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Many of us celebrated Mother's Day over the weekend by remembering or being present with women who r... Read More
President Biden's Order To Ban Private Prisons Faces a Persistent Internal Challenge: The U.S. Marshals Service Mar. 04, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
At the onset of President Joe Biden's term, in January 2021, he issued an executive order to phase o... Read More
Trump Is No Navalny, and Biden Is No Putin Feb. 22, 2024
Donald Trump has been outrageously silent about the brutal murder of Russian opposition leader Alexe... Read More
I Can't Breathe Dec. 08, 2023
However you vote, whichever lives you think matter, you may be forgiven for asking one question. Whe... Read More
Lifting the Veil on the Design of Predictive Tools in the Criminal Legal System Dec. 04, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Recently, the National Institute of Justice — the research arm of the Department of Justice &#... Read More
Florida's Statewide Prosecution of Voting With a Past Conviction Is Unlawful Oct. 02, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
After Ronald Miller registered to vote in 2020, the state of Florida sent him a voter information ca... Read More
The Deadly and Tragic Costs of Pretrial Detention Sep. 18, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Lashawn Thompson died late last year while being detained pretrial in Atlanta's Fulton County jail. ... Read More
More Lawsuits by Lawbreakers Aug. 29, 2023
No prison system is perfect, and most are far from it. That's true in Colorado, too. Prison conditio... Read More
A Post-Clemency Prosecution Shines a Light on a Broken System: Donald Trump Commuted Esformes' Sentence, but the DOJ Is Bent on Sending Him Back to Prison Jul. 07, 2023
A month before he left office, then-President Donald Trump freed Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing ... Read More
Trump Can't Decide Whether To Free Drug Dealers or Kill Them: The Former President's Bloody Rhetoric Undermines His Defense of Sentencing Reform Jul. 05, 2023
Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether he wants to execute drug dealers or free them from prison.... Read More
A Post-Clemency Prosecution Shines a Light on a Broken System: Donald Trump Commuted Esformes' Sentence, but the DOJ Is Bent on Sending Him Back to Prison Jul. 05, 2023
A month before he left office, then-President Donald Trump freed Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing ... Read More
A Kansas City FBI Agent Is Prison-Bound for Doing Less Than Trump Allegedly Did Jun. 29, 2023
The classified documents were kept in various parts of the home, including in a bathtub. It was uncl... Read More
Trump Can't Decide Whether To Free Drug Dealers or Kill Them: The Former President's Bloody Rhetoric Undermines His Defense of Sentencing Reform Jun. 28, 2023
Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether he wants to execute drug dealers or free them from prison.... Read More
The Overzealous Prosecutors of Jan. 6 Jun. 02, 2023
"Government," observed the 14th-century Arab political theorist Ibn Khaldoun, "is an institution whi... Read More
