Legislation

All people in Connecticut, including people who have a criminal record, have the right to safe and stable housing

The ACLU-CT believes in a society where all people, including those who have been convicted or accused of a crime, have equal opportunity to contribute to society and build successful and fulfilling lives.

The ACLU of Connecticut strongly supports measures to ensure equal access to the ballot box and we especially support measures that increase voting access for historically disenfranchised groups, particularly Black voters.

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.

Injustice thrives in the dark. The ability to shed sunlight on government action through Freedom of Information requests is essential to holding public officials accountable and to preventing state-sanctioned discrimination, abuse, and mismanagement.

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.