Our Director of Strategic Communications Bill Farrar and Director of Advocacy Jenny Glass participated today in a meeting with Henrico County Police Chief Humberto Cardounel and Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor, other law enforcement officials, and a small number of community advocates.

Federal District Court Judge Robert E. Payne today issued a sweeping 67-page opinion rejecting in its entirety an attempt by Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) officials and employees to block judicial review of their use of solitary confinement in state prisons.

The ACLU of Virginia, in collaboration with global law firm White & Case LLP, today filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) seeking to end the practice of solitary confinement in two of its most notorious prisons.

Drugs are just as available, cheap, and in demand as ever. Expanding the law to allow someone to be charged for murder for supplying a drug when another adult voluntarily takes the drug will not end overdoses.