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The ACLU of Michigan has settled a federal lawsuit after the Michigan Department of Corrections agreed to a major policy change that will allow prisoners to report any abuse they witness of other inmates.
Residents at more than 112,000 Detroit households had their water disconnected between 2014 and October 2018, simply because they couldn’t afford to pay.
It was a do or die moment. Literally.
From the age of 5, Aimee Stephens had known she wasn’t like the other boys as she was growing up in a staunch Baptist family in Fayetteville, N.C. There was the boy seen by others, and the girl she knew she really was.
The ACLU of Michigan filed a brief today urging the Michigan Supreme Court to reject the legislature’s attempt to undermine the will of the voters by removing citizen-led proposals from the ballot through an anti-democratic maneuver known as “adopt and amend.”
The 1994 federal crime bill that created tough new criminal sentences and incentivized states to build more prisons and pass truth-in-sentencing laws is getting new scrutiny during this 2020 election cycle.
This Mental Health Awareness Month let’s talk about how mental illness plays into mass incarceration.
