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For decades, local, state and federal public officials from both political parties and powerful interest groups engineered the system of mass incarceration. They did this in part by constructing a narrative of fear fueled by racism through which they passed laws, spent billions of dollars, and separated millions of families. It was a disaster of epic proportions that unfolded in slow motion and for which we are still paying the price today as a nation.
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By aclutn
Mar 05, 2017
Trump's Wiretapping Accusations: Here's What the Government Can Actually Do
On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump posted a series of angry tweets, accusing former President Barack Obama of engaging in a “Nixon/Watergate”-style plot to tap the phones at Trump Tower during the election.
As an initial matter, it’s important to emphasize that little has actually been reliably verified. While many critical
By aclutn
Mar 04, 2017
Day 44: Tell lawmakers that we are sick and tired of legislation that harms transgender students
By Claire Gardner
Mar 03, 2017
A Private Prison Already Failed This Texas County. And Now Officials Want It Back?
Ten years ago, Willacy County officials made a catastrophic mistake. And they’re about to make it again.
In 2006, “Tent City” opened in Willacy County as a detention facility for civil immigration detainees held by Immi
By aclutn
Mar 03, 2017
In Trump’s ‘Maternity Leave’ Plan, The Devil — and the Stereotypes — Are In the Details
In Donald Trump’s speech to Congress this week, he surprised many by mentioning the need to “ensure new parents that they have paid family leave.” The president is correct about one thing: Congressional action on paid family leave is long overdue.
But as with all policy proposa
By aclutn
Mar 03, 2017
State Bills Would Give Adoption Agencies the Right to Discriminate Against LGBT Adoptive Parents. Kids Will Suffer.
Amidst the chaos and perpetual deluge of shocking headlines out of D.C., state legislatures are quietly moving forward with their anti-LGBT agenda, disguised as a more palatable “protection of religious freedom.”The earliest out of the gate this year is South Dakota, which just passed a law that would allow child-placement agencies receiving state funds to refuse to provide services to children and families if they have religious objections. You won’t find any references to sexual orientation or gender identity in Senate Bill 149, but this and the dozens of other bills percolating across the country are being promoted by the same groups that are fighting tooth and nail to undermine equality for LGBT people.
What makes the South Dakota bill and others pending in
By aclutn
Mar 03, 2017
How Is Trump Planning to Attack Reproductive Rights, LGBT Equality, and Religious Minorities? We’ll Find Out.
There is no question that President Trump hopes to stop progress toward full LGBT equality and access to reproductive rights. Trump has vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that determined women have a fundamental constitutional right to abortion. And Trump just rescinded guidelines that protected transgender students from discrimination.What should we brace for next? We intend to find out through our Freedom of Information Act requests filed today.
Last month, word circulated that Trump was on the verge of signing an
By aclutn
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