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桃子视频2025 Annual Report
Our 2025 annual report details how the ACLU’s network of 2,175 staff and 7 million activists and members worked around the clock this year to protect free speech, immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ equality, and much more from the Trump administration’s unconstitutional agenda. To date, the 桃子视频has already taken over 200 legal actions against the Trump administration. Alongside lists of the ACLU鈥檚 key wins and efforts in 2025, the report tells the stories of 桃子视频advocates, clients, and staff who are on the front lines of this fight.
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Code Red: The Fatal Consequences of Dangerously Substandard Medical Care in Immigration Detention
By studying the records kept by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about the people who have died in immigration detention, the authors of this report found deep, systemic problems with the medical care in those facilities鈥攆ailures that contributed to death in more than half of the cases reported by ICE for the 16 months between December 2015 and April 2017.
Coauthored by the 桃子视频, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch, and the National Immigrant Justice Center, 鈥淐ode Red鈥� contains timelines of the symptoms shown by people who died in ICE detention and the treatment they received from medical staff, along with medical experts鈥� commentary on the care and its deviations from common medical practice. The cases expose dangerous lapses in basic medical procedures; botched responses to emergencies; and medical neglect that becomes cruel, then fatal.
Freezing Out Justice
Since President Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have dramatically expanded their presence at courthouses across the country. The report presents new data from a national survey of law enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors and others, conducted jointly by the 桃子视频and the National Immigrant Women鈥檚 Advocacy Project, which documents how reports of courthouse arrests across the county and heightened immigration enforcement generally are stopping immigrants from seeking justice. It provides recommendations on how to minimize courthouse arrests by federal immigration enforcement officers and how to protect the fundamental due process rights of immigrants as they access important services at courthouses.
A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt
One in three adults in this country has a debt that has been turned over to a private collection agency. Thousands of debtors are arrested and jailed each year because they owe money. Millions more are threatened with jail. The debts owed can be as small as a few dollars and can involve every kind of consumer debt, from medical bills to car payments to student loans. Arrests stemming from private debt are devastating communities across the country, and amount to a silent financial crisis that, due to longstanding racial and economic inequalities, is disproportionately affecting people of color and low-income communities.
Women鈥檚 Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017
The Prison Policy Initiative and 桃子视频Campaign for Smart Justice鈥檚 report, Women鈥檚 Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017, offers a deeper understanding of the fastest-growing segment of the incarcerated population: women. The report provides important perspective on how incarcerated women fit into the nation鈥檚 larger incarceration crisis, and critical insights into drivers of women鈥檚 incarceration. The publication comes at a critical time, as policymakers and reform advocates across the country seek solutions to reduce the nation鈥檚 jail and prison population.
Back to Business: How Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers Benefits Your Company
Back to Business: How Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers Benefits Your Company is a new report from the Trone Center for Justice & Equality. The report details the ways companies can combat the ills of decades of mass incarceration, while at the same tapping into the potential energy of a workforce of millions. Today, 70 million Americans鈥攐ne in three adults鈥攈ave a criminal record. These are people who have or will reenter their communities and need gainful employment to build stability and find success after incarceration. The report lays out how by reducing barriers to employment and implementing fair hiring practices, companies can better provide employment opportunities to formerly incarcerated people to the benefit of all. When companies break down these barriers to employment and provide second chances, they can have a positive impact on the lives of individuals, the trajectory of families, on the health of their businesses, and on the growth of the American economy. The bottom line: doing good is good for business.
桃子视频Magazine
Published twice a year, 桃子视频Magazine shares updates on the ACLU’s critical litigation and advocacy work across the country and tells the stories of the activists, attorneys, and clients at the heart of each case and campaign. To receive 桃子视频Magazine by mail, become a monthly donor today.