CLEVELAND—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pursuing a contract with the private prison company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to hold people in the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown prior to deporting them.
In response to a recent court ruling over the illegal purging of voter registrations by Secretary of State Jon Husted, the ACLU of Ohio is issuing this alert for all voters in the 2016 presidential election.
CLEVELAND—The massive enforcement of laws criminalizing personal drug use and possession in the United States causes devastating harm, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a joint report released today.
CLEVELAND—The ACLU of Ohio, TransOhio, Equality Ohio, the Human Rights Campaign, the League of Women Voters, and Ohio Voice will provide educational materials to all boards of elections with guidelines on how to interact with transgender voters.
CLEVELAND—Today the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced that executions will resume in January 2017. Below is a statement that can be attributed to Mike Brickner, Senior Policy Director of the ACLU of Ohio.
CLEVELAND—The ACLU of Ohio says the proposed use of force policy released on September 8th by the Cleveland Department of Police is an improvement, but warns that the policy’s success is contingent upon officers’ accountability to it.