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Black, Brown and Targeted: A Report on Boston Police Department Street Encounters from 2007–2010
NATIONAL REPORT
This ACLU research report, “Reckless Lawmaking: How Debt-Based Driver's License Suspension Laws Impose Harm and Waste Resources,” documents the pervasive practice of using driver’s license suspension as a consequence for unpaid fines and fees.
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing
NATIONAL REPORT
Across the country, heavily armed Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams are forcing their way into people’s homes in the middle of the night, often deploying explosive devices such as flashbang grenades to temporarily blind and deafen residents.
Warehoused and Forgotten: Immigrants Trapped in Our Shadow Private Prison System
NATIONAL REPORT
Today, the United States has just 5% of the world’s population but nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners. But it has not always been this way.
2013-2014 ACLU of Colorado Annual Report
The ACLU of Colorado had a very productive year in 2013-2014, with victories in free speech and criminal justice legal cases, significant progress on limiting the use of ICE detainers in county jails, and landmark legislation to end debtor’s prison practices and the warehousing of seriously menta
April 1, 2014 Freedom of Expression & Religion Criminal Legal Reform Immigrants’ RightsOut of Sight, Out of Mind: Colorado's continued warehousing of mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement
This report examines past and continued use of solitary confinement by the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) to manage mentally ill prisoners; considers the moral, fiscal, safety and legal implications of CDOC’s continued warehousing of mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement; and
June 1, 2013 Criminal Legal Reform