Press Releases

Immigrants’ Rights Groups Condemn Rockingham County’s Decision to Enter into New Agreement with ICE.

REIDSVILLE - On Wednesday, March 11, the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office announced their participation in the Federal Warrant Service Officer program, which gives deputies working in the county jail the authority to serve administrative arrest warrants on behalf of ICE.

ACLU & Prisoner Legal Services Challenge NC's Use of Solitary Confinement

RALEIGH – Four people who have spent years locked in solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the state’s use of the practice – in which people are held in cells no bigger than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day with little to no human contact.
Issue Areas: Criminal Law Reform