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Abandoned & Abused: Letter to President Bush (08/09/2006)

National Prison Project Letter to the Department of Justice (08/09/2006)
National Prison Project letter asking Congress to audit the Orlean Parish Prison's emergency preparedness plans. The ACLU is calling for a full and immediate investigation into abuses at Louisiana correctional facilities during and after hurricane Katrina and is also urging the DOJ to make the findings from such an investigation public and accessible to state and federal prosecutors.

Limited Communication for Terrorist Inmates (06/02/2006)
On April 3, 2006, the Bureau of Prisons proposed a new regulation imposing severe restrictions on the ability of persons in Bureau custody to communicate with the outside world. Although the regulation is titled “Limited Communication for Terrorist Inmates,” the regulation can be applied to persons who have not been convicted, or even charged, with any act of terrorism, or indeed with any crime at all.

ACLU Letter to the House Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget and International Security Expressing Concerns about S. 346, Which Prevents Offenders from Obtaining Job Skills and Benefitting from Opportunities for Rehabilitation (04/06/2004)

ACLU Interested Persons Memo Expressing Concerns about H.R. 3214, the "Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act of 2003", which Includes the Innocence Protection Act (12/16/2003)

ACLU Letter to the House Urging Co-sponsorship of H.R. 1993, Office of Correctional Health Act of 2003 (09/30/2003)

ACLU Letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary Opposing H.R. 1829, the Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2003 (07/16/2003)

Sign-on Letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee Urging Opposition to Attaching Federal Prison Industries Bill (H.R. 1577) to Department of Defense Authorization Bills (10/03/2002)

Sign-on Letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee Urging Opposition to Attaching Federal Prison Industries Bill (H.R. 1577) to Department of Defense Authorization Bills (10/01/2002)

Letter to House and Senate Department of Defense Authorization Conferees Urging Opposition to Attaching Federal Prison Industries Bill (HR 1577) to DOD Authorization Bills (09/16/2002)