News & Commentary

This post is part of our Summer 2017 issue of Connection, our quarterly newsletter. To read the whole newsletter, click here.

Read Kamilla London's guest blog about being an incarcerated transgender woman.

A report was released today by Color of Change and the ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice that outlined the ways in which cash bail and the bail bonds industry deprives people of their constitutional rights.

Legalization is the next step when it comes to marijuana policy in Delaware. Read 5 reasons why it should be done.

Many ordinary people are engaging in activism in Delaware! Read their profiles here.

America is home to only 5% of the world’s population yet imprisons 25% of the world’s prisoners. Delaware is an unfortunate leader in this trend. Delaware has the tenth most prisoners per capita in the United States. We incarcerate Delawareans at roughly twice the rate of states like New Jersey and Minnesota. The predictable consequence of stuffing our prisons with non-violent offenders is that our prisons have become overcrowded. Correctional officers are underpaid and prisons are understaffed. Resources that experts say make prisons safer, like adequate mental health care for inmates, have been sacrificed.

On Tuesday, January 10th, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for the position of U.S. Attorney General. Committee members should leave no stone unturned when questioning Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III of Alabama, President-elect Trump's nominee for the position of attorney general.

Attorney General Matt Denn will not appeal the Delaware Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty, but he is still looking to execute the 13 men currently on death row.

Matthew Segal, Legal Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, writes about systemic problems in cases with police misconduct.