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2020 Recap: Decarceration During the Pandemic
Once it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic was a public health crisis in the United States in early March, our work quickly pivoted to decarceration efforts to prevent Pennsylvania jails and prisons from becoming COVID hotspots.
By Sara J. Rose
Statement on McKeesport Suspicionless Police Searches
Trump’s Legal Claims are a Bald-faced Attempt to Disenfranchise Pennsylvania Voters
By all rational measurements, the 2020 election was a success. Voters turned out in numbers not seen in 100 years. They did their part and had their say, despite efforts by powerful people to make voting more difficult – efforts that were aimed particularly at people of color.
A federal court freed 22 medically vulnerable people from immigration detention. Now ICE might detain them again.
ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds: they refused to agree to even this short respite for our medically-vulnerable clients. So we were forced to seek emergency relief from the court.
By Vanessa Stine, Muneeba Talukder
Common voter questions about voting by mail
Is it better to vote by mail or vote in person?
Common voter questions about the 2020 election
The following questions and answers are based on conversations from ACLU of Pennsylvania’s Speaking Freely podcast episodes.
Schools Need More Counselors, Not More Cops
What is considered normal adolescent behavior is often dealt with in a criminal justice setting, and that’s reflected in the high rates of arrests in some districts and in some states. Pennsylvania has had among the highest rates of student arrests in the country for at least a decade.
By Harold Jordan, Andy Hoover
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