Marijuana prohibition costs the state and its municipalities an estimated $22 million a year, creates a dangerous backlog at the agency that tests forensic evidence in violent crimes, and needlessly ensnares thousands of people – disproportionately African Americans – in the criminal justice system, according to a report released today by Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Trump administration is withholding records detailing how it has unlawfully permitted the use of federal funds to arm teachers with guns in classrooms across America, according to a lawsuit the SPLC filed today.
The Trump administration has illegally and deliberately restricted the number of individuals who can access the asylum process at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an updated class action lawsuit filing from the SPLC.
Robert E. Lee was a slaveholder who led an armed rebellion against the United States to keep people enslaved.
President Trump has now appointed two men to the Supreme Court. During an oral argument this week, one of them, Justice Neil Gorsuch, seemed concerned about the expansive use of government power to detain immigrants.
In 2014, Don Adams put off going to the hospital for treatment of an infection after the state of Tennessee failed to promptly decide on his application to TennCare, the state’s federally funded Medicaid program.
Alton Adams began having problems with his right leg soon after he was incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court is a devastating blow to the values you and I share.
Lorena Barnum Sabbs was just 11 years old when she was arrested.
Before fleeing Somalia, Yuusuf was a teacher.
