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Meet Your Neighbor: Mark Baker
“We are a community of the forgotten… the unwanted…the misunderstood. We are human beings who came together and formed bonds forged in the worst of circumstances," Mark described in a poem stirred by...
Get the Facts Right about a Second Look Law.
It doesn’t make sense to incarcerate people who are no longer a threat to public safety. A Second Look law would empower and protect victims of crime, not re-traumatize them.
Latest Press Releases
Supreme Court of Virginia ruling indicates Virginia Department of Corrections is unlawfully imprisoning potentially hundreds of people for too long
"VDOC and the Attorney General are supposed to uphold and apply the law as written, but instead, they manufactured their own interpretation of it and hoped no one would notice,” said ACLU of Virginia Senior...
Lawmakers did the right thing by refusing to accept Gov. Youngkin’s attempt to undermine the right to contraception
“After the fall of Roe v. Wade, it’s become clear that extremists won’t stop at abortion, but are after all reproductive health care – including contraception.”
Gov. Youngkin's concerns about public safety are disingenuous
“If Governor Youngkin – or the Virginia Sheriffs’ Association – were serious about public safety, he wouldn’t make it harder for people to come forward when they need help," said ACLU of Virginia Policy...
In the courts
King v. Youngkin
King v. Youngkin claims that Virginia is in violation of the 150-year-old federal law that established the terms of Virginia’s readmission to representation in the United States Congress after the Civil War.