Each session, legislators pass enough of those bills that a steady stream of new and unnecessary criminal offenses and penalties become law.
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
Note: the video here and those linked below contain scenes of violence and/or explicit language.
December 1, 2020
On October 24, 2019 the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania released a report entitled Punishing Poverty: Cash Bail in Allegheny County, an analysis of two years of dockets to examine bail practices in Allegheny County.
October 24, 2019
A report released on October 17, 2019, by the ACLU of Pennsylvania illustrates how the General Assembly passes duplicative offenses and harsher penalties in every legislative session.
October 17, 2019
Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America. They are happening in our nation’s K-12 schools. Today, some 51% of all public schools have sworn law enforcement officers, 91% of whom carry firearms.
October 14, 2019