Legislation

For people who are incarcerated, maintaining familial and community bonds is crucial to mental health, physical health, community health, and community safety.

The goal of our justice system is meant to be rehabilitation, not punishment.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread inside the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC), Connecticut’s prisons and jails were not healthy places.

Due process is the minimum standard of procedural fairness; it requires, at a minimum, notice and an opportunity to be heard by a neutral decisionmaker.

The ACLU-CT is an organization dedicated to racial equity in civil society. One deeply disturbing way that racism shows up is in the health care people can access and in the health outcomes for people of color, particularly Black people.

Recognizing Juneteenth as a legal holiday would make it clear that Connecticut is not eliding its troubled history with slavery.

We are all affected by voter suppression, because democracy is debased when the vote is not accessible for everyone.

As an organization committed to the liberties guaranteed by our Constitution, the ACLU-CT fully supports a fair voting system to uphold the foundational cornerstone of our democracy: the right to vote.

The ACLU-CT believes that all people, including people living with criminal records and incarcerated people, are entitled to the opportunity to access employment and dignity in the workplace.