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No animal should be abused or harmed for human entertainment. But rather than create a new misdemeanor, members of the Enviroment Committee should consider enforcement mechanisms that focus on penalizing...
Connecticut needs to invest in housing programs and reentry services specifically for people who are disabled and leaving incarceration.
This bill seeks to ban the use of police deceptive interrogation tactics on children. No one, including children, should be imprisoned because police coerced them into a false confession.
One of the biggest injustices faced by people living with a criminal record are the myriad of collateral consequences flowing from that criminal record. By mandating background checks for security officer...
Contact between community members and police can have tragic consequences for people experiencing mental health crises. We have significant concerns with Senate Bill 972 because of its failure to reduce the...
At the ACLU-CT, we believe in the complete decriminalization of cannabis—from cultivation to sale and delivery to possession and use. House Bill 5434 is an attempt to repeal key aspects of cannabis...