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ACLU-VA to VDOC: Honor Earned Sentence Credits
Read the ACLU-VA's letter to the Virginia Department of Corrections demanding it honor the earned sentence credits of everyone with an eligible inchoate offense.
Tell Virginia's Leaders to Protect Access to Contraception
Latest Press Releases
Dozens of immigrants join first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit
“Today’s order isn’t just the first lawsuit of its kind to ever be filed in the Fourth Circuit: it’s a first step towards getting justice for the dozens of people whom ICE has harmed here in Virginia," said...
Virginia universities and public officials must protect, not suppress, student free speech
“Universities are charged with creating environments that encourage students to exercise their First Amendment rights – not ones that have license to violate students’ civil rights and civil liberties,”...
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...
In the courts
Rodriguez Guerra et al. v. Perry et al.
The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition, the National Immigration Project, and the ACLU of Virginia are suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is arbitrarily detaining people in Virginia after they won immigration cases.