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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
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
Jose Isais Garcia Vasquez v. Dotson and Darden
The ACLU of Virginia filed a case challenging Virginia Department of Correction's (VADOC) refusal to award expanded sentence credits to people with certain convictions, unlawfully extending their incarceration.