ACLU of New Jersey. In terms of the state prison inmate population, the total fell from 17,407 in 2011 to 10,260 in 2022, according to state data cited by the ACLU.

In contrast, ACLU-NJ’s 2017 report found that in 2013, New Jersey averaged 66 possession arrests statewide per day, or one arrest approximately every 21 minutes. “In the span of these four years of ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and a pair of immigrant and children’s rights groups have sent a letter to New Jersey‘s 600-plus school districts and charter networks advising ...

New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees; First Friends of New Jersey and New York; and the Prison Policy Initiative. “The telephone is a lifeline for many in prison – a phone call shouldn’t be an ...

The ACLU-NJ, which advocated for the law, views the change as a success because the pretrial jail population dropped from 9,000 before the reform to just above 5,000 in 2018 and 2019.

According to the ACLU-NJ: “Since 1966, New Jersey has denied farmworkers the right to overtime pay that it mandates for other similarly situated workers. Today, ...

That’s why legislative action is needed — and why immigrants’ rights organizations across the state, including the ACLU-NJ, are supporting the Immigrant Trust Act recently introduced by ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking New Jersey Department of Corrections to lift an alleged ban of a book that examines the impact of mass incarceration on people of color. According to ...

However, abortion-rights groups such as ACLU New Jersey and Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey don’t share the same enthusiasm for this initiative, given the precedent set by the state ...

The New Jersey ACLU alleged in its lawsuit that multiple polling sites in the state opened late and there were “ongoing operational issues throughout the day,” which resulted in “dozens of ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and a pair of immigrant and children’s rights groups have sent a letter to New Jersey‘s 600-plus school districts and charter networks advising ...