Civil Liberites, Sexuality and the Law
Introduction
Suggested Reading
#SayHerName: Racial Profiling and Police Violence Against Black Women
Andrea J. Ritchie{{Andrea J. Ritchie is a civil rights attorney who has led groundbreaking research, litigation, and advocacy efforts to challenge profiling, policing, and physical and sexual violence by law enforcement against women, girls and LGBTQ people of color for
Prohibiting Young Adult Life Without Parole: Examining Diminished Capacity and Diminished Culpability
As with juveniles, young adults (18-24) experience a diminished capacity for cognitive processing because the PFC and EFs continue to develop into the mid-20’s. This diminished capacity of young adults must be taken into consideration when sentencing people in this age
Disentangling the Civil-Carceral State: An Abolitionist Framework for the Non-Criminal Response to Intimate Partner Violence
As we work to reimagine a world that does not rely on a militarized, often brutal approach to solving social and individual problems, we must recognize the ways in which the civil response to violence was built on and is still entangled
New York Tough: 18 Months of Crisis Lawyering to Fight Covid-19 in New York’s Prisons
Our 18 months of COVID-19 state prison litigation and advocacy have sharpened our strategies, deepened our commitment, and heightened our resolve to grow with the movement, always honoring our role.