ACLU Archives - Correctional News

Hawaii Struggles as Overcrowding in Corrections Worsens

May 2, 2018April 10, 2019 Correctional News 3483 Views ACLU, hawaii, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, Maui, Overcrowding

For years now, officials at the Department of Public Safety (DPS) have raised concerns about overcrowding in Hawaii’s correctional facilities, and new figures show that this predicament is only getting worse.

Banned Books Raise Inmate Rights Issues in the Northeast

January 11, 2018January 3, 2019 Correctional News 2427 Views ACLU, Banned Books, New Jersey, New York, The New Jim Crow

The words of Oscar Wilde and other famous authors soon won’t be available to some inmates in New York and New Jersey whose reading choices are being decided — and some say denied — by the states in which they’re incarcerated.