ACLU-PA files federal complaint over immigration detention
ACLU-PA, Legal Services of New Jersey, and UPenn filed a federal complaint with the Department of Homeland Security over abhorrent conditions at Moshannon Valley Processing Center.
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...
By Harold Jordan, Andy Hoover
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...
By Harold Jordan, Andy Hoover
Aug 11, 2020
Trump Wants Voting to Be Difficult in Pennsylvania
Donald Trump is doing everything he can to stop Americans from deciding his fate as president on November 3.
Donald Trump is doing everything he can to stop Americans from deciding his fate as president on November 3.
Aug 10, 2020
White Privilege Does Not Mean Your Life Has Not Been Hard. It Just Means It Has Not Been Hard Because You Are White.
Racial Justice
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award Acceptance Speech
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award Acceptance Speech
Aug 7, 2020
Revoked: The probation reform bill that wasn’t
Criminal Justice Reform
Over the last two legislative sessions, the ACLU-PA has been urging state legislators to reform Pennsylvania’s archaic and overly-punitive probation system. Although the...
By Elizabeth Randol
Over the last two legislative sessions, the ACLU-PA has been urging state legislators to reform Pennsylvania’s archaic and overly-punitive probation system. Although the...
By Elizabeth Randol
Jun 18, 2020
We have to get these medically vulnerable people out of ICE detention. Now.
Immigrants' Rights
The ACLU of Pennsylvania is in federal court this week, arguing for a classwide injunction that would immediately release from ICE custody medically vulnerable people from immigration detention in Clinton,...
By Vanessa Stine
The ACLU of Pennsylvania is in federal court this week, arguing for a classwide injunction that would immediately release from ICE custody medically vulnerable people from immigration detention in Clinton,...