The statehouse-to-prison pipeline is the practice of introducing bills that create new crimes, enhance existing penalties, and/or expand current laws that result in more people going to prison or jail.
April 23, 2023
At its December 2022 meeting, the ACLU-PA board of directors passed a resolution honoring Reggie Shuford's 11 years as executive director.
December 15, 2022
Student Arrests in Allegheny County Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability is a new research report published by the ACLU of Pennsylvania. The report finds that student arrests or referrals to police occur more often than are documented by schools.
January 18, 2022
Broken Rules: How Pennsylvania Courts Use Cash Bail to Incarcerate People Before Trial is a new research report published by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.
December 21, 2021
As explained in our More Law, Less Justice: 2017-2018 session report, for the last four decades, the Pennsylvania Legislature has acted as a bipartisan offense factory, churning out hundreds of new bills
June 8, 2021
The ACLU of Pennsylvania has conducted the first empirical study of the fines, costs, and restitution imposed and collected by Pennsylvania courts in criminal cases.
December 18, 2020