Please contact Casira Copes, Communications Director, for all press inquiries. You can reach Casira by email at [email protected].
The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware released Delaware’s Broken Probation System: The Urgent Need to Reform Community Supervision in the First State, a new comprehensive analysis of Delaware’s probation system and how it fuels mass incarceration. Here is our press release on the launch.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2019
CONTACT:
Morgan Keller, ACLU-DE Communications Manager
Office: 302-654-5326 x109, Cell: 570-618-1383, [email protected]
The members of the General Assembly and Attorney General Kathleen Jennings announced an expansive package of bills today that aim to slow the problem of over-incarceration in Delaware and promote more fairness in the criminal justice system.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware and the Norman Law Firm announced today that a federal judge has approved the settlement of its class action lawsuit on behalf of people alleged to have been wrongfully arrested by the Wilmington Police Department.
Over the weekend a video surfaced online of a New Castle County police officer beating a 16-year-old boy. The Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust began an investigation yesterday.
Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced a list of directives today that have the potential to change the criminal prosecution system in Delaware. Here's a statement from Kathleen MacRae, our Executive Director, in response.