NEW ORLEANS – ACLU of Louisiana, ACLU National Voting Rights Project, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and 13 other civil rights organizations submitted a letter urging the Louisiana Legislature to draw...
NEW ORLEANS – In 2021, ACLU of Louisiana’s Justice Lab campaign collected more than 400 complaints of police misconduct, filed upwards of 30 cases against law enforcement officers, and documented...
NEW ORLEANS – In a letter addressed to U. S. Attorney Duane E. Evans and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the ACLU of Louisiana called for a pattern or...
Louisiana has the nation’s highest incarceration rate, and while historic reforms implemented as part of the 2017 Justice Reinvestment Package have begun to alleviate this crisis, more work must be done to reduce the state’s harmful reliance on incarceration.
