A federal judge approved an order today to resolve a preliminary injunction motion filed on behalf of three people incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail seeking changes to the jail’s practices to protect people in the jail from COVID-19.

Today, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania heard arguments in a lawsuit challenging Lebanon County’s policy prohibiting the use of medical marijuana by people who are under community supervision, such as probation, and who are registered patients with the state Department of Health.

The ACLU of PA, the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin, and Seth Kreimer of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, released a new round of reports under a 2011 consent decree that requires the city of Philadelphia to cease unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices. 

Today, three criminal legal reform groups issued a statement in response to Governor Tom Wolf’s announcement that he plans to use his powers of reprieve to make eligible for release some 1,500 to 1,800 incarcerated people.

HARRISBURG - Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied an emergency request asking for a reduction in county jail populations filed by the ACLU of Pennsylvania on behalf of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and five people detained in county jails across the commonwealth.

HARRISBURG — Today, three criminal legal reform groups issued a statement in response to Governor Tom Wolf’s failure to use his powers of reprieve to reduce the populations of Pennsylvania’s state prisons to lower the risk of the spread of COVID-19.

HARRISBURG — The ACLU of Pennsylvania filed an emergency request asking the state Supreme Court to use its “King’s Bench” power to protect public health by ordering county common pleas courts to release some people from county jails.

Today, the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a complaint on behalf of 15 residents of Montgomery County, alleging that the Montgomery County Commissioners committed more than a dozen violations of the Sunshine Act by firing top public defenders Dean Beer and Keisha Hudson.

HARRISBURG — The ACLU of Pennsylvania sent a letter to Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine on Friday, urging the department to issue guidance to all stakeholders in the criminal legal system regarding the coronavirus pandemic.