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No One Should Die In Custody
Across America, 68 percent of incarcerated people with a medical condition go without care in local jails. Put simply, incarcerated people are often denied life sustaining and life-saving health...
Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention, Three Years Into the Biden Administration
In July, more than 90 percent of the average 30,000 people held daily in ICE detention were housed in private facilities, as private corporation revenues from immigrant detention soar.
By Eunice Cho
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No One Should Die In Custody
Across America, 68 percent of incarcerated people with a medical condition go without care in local jails. Put simply, incarcerated people are often denied life sustaining and life-saving health...
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How Artificial Intelligence Might Prevent You From Getting Hired
AI-based tools are used throughout hiring processes, increasing the odds of discrimination in the workplace.
By Olga Akselrod, Cody Venzke
AI-based tools are used throughout hiring processes, increasing the odds of discrimination in the workplace.
By Olga Akselrod, Cody Venzke
Hotel Accessibility Reaches the Supreme Court
When a hotel fails to provide accessibility features on its website, prospective guests with disabilities can’t know if it is safe and usable....
By Lucy Trieshmann
When a hotel fails to provide accessibility features on its website, prospective guests with disabilities can’t know if it is safe and usable....
By Lucy Trieshmann
Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap
From homeownership to income, systemic inequities perpetuate disparities in wealth.
By Ricardo Mimbela, Katie Duarte
From homeownership to income, systemic inequities perpetuate disparities in wealth.
By Ricardo Mimbela, Katie Duarte
Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81
The United States' interstate highway system is structural racism in action: an intentional government program that damaged Black lives and...
By Jay A. Fernandez
The United States' interstate highway system is structural racism in action: an intentional government program that damaged Black lives and...
By Jay A. Fernandez
The Authoritarian Agenda Behind the Scheme to Attack Democracy and Abortion in Ohio
More than 3 million voters rejected an attempt to weaken their power, but our work is far from over.
By Deirdre Schifeling
More than 3 million voters rejected an attempt to weaken their power, but our work is far from over.
By Deirdre Schifeling
Idaho Wants to Jail Professors for Teaching About Abortion
Idaho’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act effectively strips professors of their First Amendment right to academic speech. We’re suing.
By Elizabeth Gyori
Idaho’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act effectively strips professors of their First Amendment right to academic speech. We’re suing.
By Elizabeth Gyori
The Deadly and Tragic Costs of Pretrial Detention
Local officials must take action to prevent more deaths in Fulton County, Georgia's jails.
By Andrea Woods, Benjamin Lynde
Local officials must take action to prevent more deaths in Fulton County, Georgia's jails.
By Andrea Woods, Benjamin Lynde
Arkansas Wants to Unconstitutionally “Card” People Before They Use Social Media
The state’s Social Media Safety Act stifles freedom of expression online and violates the First Amendment.
By Vera Eidelman, Laura Moraff
The state’s Social Media Safety Act stifles freedom of expression online and violates the First Amendment.
By Vera Eidelman, Laura Moraff
No One Should Die In Custody
Across America, 68 percent of incarcerated people with a medical condition go without care in local jails. Put simply, incarcerated people are...
Across America, 68 percent of incarcerated people with a medical condition go without care in local jails. Put simply, incarcerated people are...
Challenging Police Brutality in Louisiana
Police violence is rampant in states across the country — but ACLU advocates are working to fix the broken system that perpetuates it.
By Johanna Silver
Police violence is rampant in states across the country — but ACLU advocates are working to fix the broken system that perpetuates it.
By Johanna Silver
