‘Heartbreaking’: Anti-Trans Healthcare Law Takes Effect in Texas
Despite ACLU win in lower court, an appeal by the state means transgender kids and their families will feel the devastating effects of the ban.
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Instead of Building Family-Friendly Jails for Migrants, We Should Just Stop Jailing Them
The processing centers are jails by another name, where men, women and children are kept in large group cells with no access to beds, full meals or even adequate drinking water.
Texas Prisons Lead the Nation in Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Nearly a third of Texas prisoners in restrictive housing have been there for six years or longer, according to a new national survey.
Documentary Follows a Family’s Fight to Change Texas Law that Turned Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman into an ‘Incubator’
62 Days is meant to bring attention to laws that “punish women and put them in extraordinary circumstances where their choices and autonomy are dismissed,” the filmmaker said.
The Trump Administration Deported up to 12 Parents Without Their Very Young Children
A hearing in federal court Monday gave a clearer picture of which parents will be reunited with their kids under 5 years old, as well as those who might never be.
Trump Administration Orders Refugee Shelters to Direct Pregnant Teens to Anti-Abortion Clinics
“The government certainly has been relentless in their attempts to find ways to force their anti-abortion beliefs on this population,” said an ACLU attorney.
Attorneys Who Halted Trump’s Travel Ban Will Take on Senate Bill 4
The ACLU is sending in the lawyers who stopped Trump’s executive order to argue the constitutionality of Texas’ “sanctuary cities” ban.
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The 10 Best Observer Stories of 2016: ‘No Place for Old Men’
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense.
ACLU Alleges ‘Debtors’ Prison’ in Galveston County Town
Lawsuit filed Thursday claims Santa Fe officials hiked fines to pad city budget.
No Place for Old Men
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense.