Breaking the Being addicted to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

Regardless of our efforts, the Senate didn't adopt (by 3 votes) an important modification very last month that will have created a bipartisan commission to review our criminal justice procedure and propose reforms. On Tuesday, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) issued a harsh recrimination of Senate Republicans for this failure. This piece within the Atlantic highlights the ACLU's support in the proposal, and you may read through Senator Webb's assertion right here. Browse ACLU Legislative Counsel Jennifer Bellamy's blog site about the amendment.<br/>

Ages of ACLU advocacy to remove the crack-cocaine sentencing disparity paid out off very last year with all the passage in the federal Reasonable Sentencing Act. Retroactive application from the new pointers commenced this week, and now ACLU consumer Hamedah Hasan plus much more than twelve,000 others unfairly sentenced underneath the outdated pointers can have the chance to get their sentences for crack cocaine offenses reviewed by a federal decide and potentially lowered. Hear ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Jesselyn McCurdy explore the tale during this NPR piece, which aired this week. <br/>

The ACLU is main the cost to challenge a disturbing countrywide trend: necessary drug testing of manifeste college pupils and also the very poor. The ACLU's Criminal Regulation Reform Undertaking and ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed go well with in Missouri to arguing that Linn State Technical College's drug testing of all students violated the Fourth Amendment. Taking swift motion, a federal district court decide granted a preliminary injunction to temporarily halt the unconstitutional coverage. Read this blog site publish in regards to the victory, which story from your AP. The ACLU of Florida submitted match challenging the state's pressured drug testing of applicants for temporary cash help (TANF). Previous week, a decide in Florida has halted enforcement of this unconstitutional coverage. Read through ACLU of Florida's Maria Kayanan's website publish about the victory along with the press launch. Go through Rachel Bloom's blog submit about the drug testing trend and further more protection in the Ny Days.