This advocacy guide provides information about the ACLU of New Mexico's legislative agenda and how you can help protect and expand civil liberties for all New Mexicans. Because the legislative session moves quickly, we will keep in regular touch by sending occasional updates about the status of our priority legislation via email and text. Be sure to keep your eyes open for our action alerts so you can help us advance the cause of liberty throughout the 2019 legislative session.
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Monday, January 14, 2019 - 2:45pm
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Here in New Mexico, our criminal justice system is undergoing a series of reforms, aimed at ending unconstitutional policing, jail overcrowding, and wealth-based incarceration to create a justice system that is more accountable, fair, and equitable. Because the reforms are new, it’s still too early to assess what is working and what needs changing. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped some elected officials from telling the public that justice reform is causing crime to rise.
Many New Mexicans are asking, what is really going on? This preliminary report clears up some of the confusion by identifying the major reforms underway and separating myth from reality.
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 11:30am
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Placing prisoners, especially those suffering from mental illness, in extreme isolation is costly, ineffective and inhumane. The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (NMCLP) and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) recently completed a year-long study of solitary confinement in the state. This report provides an overview of the facts discovered during the joint investigation, followed by several policy recommendations.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 5:30pm
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