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Read the Complaint: Medina Complaint Honolulu, HI – May 23, 2012 – For the second time in three months, the family of a Hawaii prisoner murdered at a private prison in Arizona filed a lawsuit against the State of Hawaii and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) (NYSE: CXW). Clifford Medina, a 23-year-old citizen of Hawaii, was incarcerated at the [...]
Read the complaint: Santos v. Kimoto – Complaint 5.15.12 Read the Motion for Preliminary Injunction and ACLU Brief in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction HONOLULU – Charging officials of the State Department of Public Safety (“DPS”) with unlawful discrimination in deciding who has the right to marry, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii Foundation [...]
New legal cases, emergent legislative actions, our new “Open Records Request” archive, and lots of aloha for our amazing volunteers – check it out! Volume 37, Number 3 is now online! (If you get the postal version. it is in the mail and will arrive shortly.) http://acluhi.org/archives/aclu-hi-newsletters/aclu-hi-newsletter-vol-37-no-3
ACLU of Hawaii Senior Staff Attorney Daniel Gluck appeared on Hawaii Public Radio’s “Town Square” on March 15, 2012 to discuss prison privatization, the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, and the ACLU’s current litigation against the State of Hawaii and the Corrections Corporation of America. Joining him were Alex Friedmann from Prison Legal News, Kat Brady from [...]
Letters From Coalition of Policy and Religious Groups Call Selling Off State Prisons “a Tragic Mistake” That Could Add Debt to State Budgets FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and a broad coalition of 60 policy and religious groups today urged states to reject a recent [...]
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