66% of voters say that rehabilitation should be prioritized over incarceration.

How Programs like HEART Fund Care, Not Criminalization

This week (May 5-8) is ACLU Community Safety Week on Capitol Hill. We’re joining the ACLU in DC to demand Congress invests in prevention, not punishment.

If We Can Pardon Turkeys, We Can Pardon People.

KPW at Vigil

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If We Can Pardon Turkeys, We Can Pardon People.

KPW at Vigil

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Remembrance, Resilience, and Response: Addressing An Epidemic of Violence Against Trans and Non-Binary People

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Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Protesters on Eve of the Election

Alamance Protest Case 11/2020

Police Violence Disrupts March to Polls in Alamance County

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Eye on Civil Liberties: Where You Can Have an Impact in Elections Closer to Home

The intense focus on the presidential race can easily obscure policies that could have more of a direct impact on communities in both red and blue states, but they are no less important.

Photo of multiple voting stations set up in the Kentucky Exposition Center for voters to cast their ballot.

Overhauling Our Immigration System Begins with Citizenship for All

As we approach the end of President Trump’s first term, it’s important to understand why and how he has inflicted such damage on our nation’s immigration system and advanced his anti-immigrant, racist agenda.

A participant folds her hands of a copy of the Oath of Allegiance and an American flag while listening to speeches during a naturalization ceremony

Voting by Mail is Easier and Safer than You Think. Here’s how.

An absentee ballot.

Immigration Detention and Coerced Sterilization: History Tragically Repeats Itself

The recent news of a whistleblower’s allegations that a for-profit ICE detention center forced sterilization procedures on immigrant women shocked many people and drew comparisons to Nazi sterilization campaigns.

A migrant detainee stands facing away from bunks.