Court Cases

Violence by correctional officers isn’t just a moral failing – it’s unconstitutional. People living in prisons have the constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. We're fighting a legal battle to shed light on and end a pattern of abuse at the Sussex Correctional Institution.

The ACLU of Delaware has been monitoring prison voting in Delaware for quite some time. Included on this page are letters that the ACLU of Delaware has sent to various government officials to protect the rights of eligible, incarcerated voters and the responses received.

Cruel and unusual punishment is blatantly unconstitutional – especially when combining prolonged solitary confinement with a mental illness. We're fighting this third-circuit case to bring justice for the late Angelo Clark, and to bring an end to this cruel practice.

Wilmington, the Norman Law Firm, and ACLU-DE Settle Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Arrests

In late 2015, we learned through our client Jonathan Rudenberg's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that the Delaware State Police had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase devices that spy on cell phones. DSP didn't want to tell us about that technology. So we sued.

In 2012, several Delaware prisoners who had been held in prison beyond the end of their sentences filed a class action suit against senior Department of Correction officials to obtain compensation and a court order requiring DOC to fix its broken release system.