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Sep 26, 2023

Too Many Policymakers Pushing for Over-Policing, Longer Sentences and Increased Incarceration

Criminal Legal Reform

We challenge the Lujan Grisham administration and all policymakers to rise to the occasion and commit to equal if not greater investments in meaningful, evidence-based diversion and treatment programs that...

We challenge the Lujan Grisham administration and all policymakers to rise to the occasion and commit to equal if not greater investments in meaningful, evidence-based diversion and treatment programs that...

People not Prisons
People not Prisons
Aug 7, 2023

Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention, Three Years Into the Biden Administration

Immigrants’ Rights

Three years into the Biden administration, the number of people held in ICE detention continues to grow, and private prison companies hold an increasingly tight grip on the mass immigration detention system...

Three years into the Biden administration, the number of people held in ICE detention continues to grow, and private prison companies hold an increasingly tight grip on the mass immigration detention system...

Protestors march in front of the ICE Company, The Geo Group building, demanding the end of private prisons.
Protestors march in front of the ICE Company, The Geo Group building, demanding the end of private prisons.
Aug 3, 2023

What Trans Youth Want You to Know

LGBTQ+ Rights

As attacks against trans youth continue across the country, the ACLU is shining the spotlight on those who are often at the center of harmful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discourse: transgender youth.

As attacks against trans youth continue across the country, the ACLU is shining the spotlight on those who are often at the center of harmful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discourse: transgender youth.

A young child holds up a sign reading "PROTECT TRANS KIDS, PROTECT ME - luke, age 9" at a Trans Pride March.
A young child holds up a sign reading "PROTECT TRANS KIDS, PROTECT ME - luke, age 9" at a Trans Pride March.
Jul 26, 2023

Why Language Assistance is Vital to the Health of Indigenous People

Indigenous Justice
Senior Indigenous Justice Staff Attorney Preston Sanchez explains why access to language assistance is vital to the overall health of Indigenous people.
Senior Indigenous Justice Staff Attorney Preston Sanchez explains why access to language assistance is vital to the overall health of Indigenous people.
Why Language Access is Vital to Indigenous Health
Why Language Access is Vital to Indigenous Health
Jul 20, 2023

Looking Back at Major Advances in Reproductive Freedom and Trans Rights This Session

LGBTQ+ Rights

The 2023 legislative session stands as one of the ACLU’s most successful. ll told, ten of our priority bills made it over the finish line, more than in any previous session.

The 2023 legislative session stands as one of the ACLU’s most successful. ll told, ten of our priority bills made it over the finish line, more than in any previous session.

New Mexico State Capitol
New Mexico State Capitol
Jul 19, 2023

The New ICE Chief Should (Finally) Make Good on Biden’s Immigration Promises

Immigrants’ Rights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has new leadership, with the appointment last week of P.J. Lechleitner as acting director. Lechleitner should look at lasting reforms to ICE’s arrest practices,...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has new leadership, with the appointment last week of P.J. Lechleitner as acting director. Lechleitner should look at lasting reforms to ICE’s arrest practices,...

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters.