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Conditions at the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) violate the constitutional rights of prisoners, according to the findings of an investigation into the jail by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that was prompted by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Today a Louisiana appeals court sided with the ACLU in ruling that a judge in Orleans Parish Juvenile Court had overstepped his bounds when he ordered a young man on probation to either cut his hair or go to jail.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Louisiana today challenging the Vermilion Parish School District's illegal sex segregation policy.
The Vermilion Parish School Board has agreed to rescind an unlawful plan for mandatory sex-segregated classrooms, at the request of the ACLU of Louisiana. Rene A.
Thibodaux High School student Brady Chiasson, who received a detention for following his conscience, has had his disciplinary record cleared of all charges, at the request of the ACLU of Louisiana.
The ACLU Foundation of Louisiana today filed a lawsuit on behalf of prisoner Ernest Billizone, who was punished by prison officials for filing simple written complaints about employee behavior.