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Denver Women’s Correctional Facility Ends Degrading Body Cavity Searches After ACLU Letter & Online Advocacy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 24, 2010 CONTACT: Mark Silverstein, Colorado ACLU Legal Director, 303-777-5482 x114 DENVER – Officials at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (DWCF) today implemented a new strip search policy that no longer allows correctional officers to engage in degrading body cavity searches during which they previously had forced prisoners to open their labia and, according to some reports, even to pull back the skin of their clitorises. The American.... | Read More
ACLU Celebrates Tattered Cover Court Decision
ACLU Foundation of Colorado joined the American Booksellers Association's Foundation for Free Expression, Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis, privacy advocates and a host of First Amendment supporters in celebrating the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling protecting the privacy of book purchasers. In a unanimous decision handed down Monday morning, April 8, the Court recognized the rights of the general public to purchase books anonymously without government interference. In early 2000, police.... | Read More
ACLU Demands That Prisoners At Colorado Springs Jail Be Allowed To Mail Letters
Federal Lawsuit Charges That Newly Enacted Policy Limiting Correspondence To Postcards Is UnconstitutionalCONTACT: Mark Silverstein, ACLU Legal Director, 303-777-5482 x114 DENVER – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Colorado today filed a federal class action lawsuit charging that a new policy barring prisoners at the El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs, Colorado from sending letters to people in the free world is unconstitutional. Implemented last month, the policy restricts.... | Read More
Denver Post: It’s Grand to Banish Your Fears
Read Susan Greene's column on Grand Junction's "emergency" ordinances. | Read More
Junction Daily Blog Covers Grand Junction “Emergency” Ordinance
Read the blog post here. | Read More
John Linko’s Blog: A Good Outcome
Read John Linko's blog on the outcome of the ACLU's legal advocacy around Grand Junction's "emergency" ordinances. | Read More