Alabama and Georgia’s anti-immigrant laws are meant to force immigrants out of the country by making their lives miserable and could violate all ... Read More
Just how many ways can one public school official violate students' legal rights? The principal of Haywood High School in Brownsville, Tennessee, seems to be going ... Read More
Posted by David Shapiro, National Prison Project at 4:12pm
Today, a broad coalition of 60 organizations called on states to reject the Corrections Corporation of America's proposal to state governors to buy prisons across the ... Read More
Today, the Senate rejected the notion that your boss can decide that you shouldn't have health insurance for cancer screenings, or make you pay out of your pocket ... Read More
By Sue Friedman, Executive Director, Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE)
As part of the ACLU's Taking Back Our Genes campaign , guest blogger Sue ... Read More
The senator took the opportunity yesterday to publicly condemn the torture program and question the credibility of Steven Bradbury's testimony. Read More
An excellent op-ed in the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) today begins, "Our justice system makes two promises to its citizens: a fundamentally fair trial and an ... Read More
Most teenagers don't sit around contemplating the need for genetic testing. They may not even know the purpose of genetic testing. That all changed for me when I ... Read More
On Monday, a federal court judge heard oral arguments in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case brought by the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) and the ... Read More
In the late 70s, my father and several other men in Liberia were tied together at the neck and brutally flogged for hours in public. It was a humiliation ... Read More
