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On June 20, in a historic vote, the New Jersey Senate and Assembly voted to dramatically limit the use of solitary confinement in our state’s prisons and jails, including for immigration detainees.
On May 2, 2019, former ACLU-NJ Legal Director Ed Barocas received the ACLU-NJ's highest honor, the Roger N. Baldwin Award, given for lifetime contributions to civil liberties or an exceptional contribution to civil liberties in the United States.
The ACLU-NJ fiercely opposed passage in the New Jersey Senate and Assembly of a bill intended to force a range of social welfare advocacy organizations – including nonpartisan, issue-based organizations – to disclose their donors and nonpartisan voter education activities.
On June 6, the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act (A314/S3261) will be heard before the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee, at 1 p.m. in Committee Room 10 on the third floor of the Trenton State House Annex.
The ACLU-NJ issues the following statement regarding the decision of Elizabeth Police Director James Cosgrove to resign following an investigation that deemed allegations of racist and sexist slurs credible.