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Our state’s addiction to mass incarceration has torn families apart, damaged communities of color and wasted hundreds of millions of tax dollars, with nearly $2 billion a year spent on our prison system.

Despite strong public support for reproductive freedom, Michigan legislators have joined efforts to drastically curtail access to abortions or overturn Roe vs. Wade completely.

Renee Chelian's harrowing story illustrates the extreme dangers of ending an unwanted pregnancy before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 recognized a constitutional right to abortion.

We have sent a letter to the University of Michigan urging its administration to withdraw an interim policy that requires students who file sexual misconduct complaints to undergo cross-examination conducted personally by their alleged abusers.

Under the new policy, people cannot be stopped, questioned, arrested, searched, or detained based solely on suspected violations of civil immigration law.

On Thursday, Aug. 15, the Chaldean Community Foundation, Congressman Andy Levin and Congresswoman Brenda L. Lawrence hosted a vigil for Jimmy Aldaoud, the 41-year-old Detroit man who was deported to Iraq.

The ACLU and MIRC sent letters today to nine county sheriffs, prosecutors, and two police chiefs, urging that they stop detaining people in jails at the request of ICE.

We have submitted a letter to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, urging the administration to partner with the Benton Harbor community and find a solution together.

In June, New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a measure Ms. Sanchez and other supporters of immigrant rights, including the ACLU of Michigan, would like to see duplicated in Michigan.