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The American Civil Liberties Union today hailed the passage of a bill in the Louisiana legislature making it easier for elderly prisoners to get a parole hearing as an important step towards reducing the state's unnecessarily high prison population.
When a Muslim woman was incarcerated in the Lafayette Parish Jail last year, she was forced by the Sheriff to remove her religiously mandated head covering, known as a hijab, because jail policies do not provide for head coverings of any kind.
The ACLU, the ACLU of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation have released a joint statement to officials of Bastrop High School and the trustees of the Bastrop Independent School District regarding prayer at graduation ceremonies.
The ACLU of Louisiana has urged the Principal of Bastrop High School to respect the First Amendment and ensure that tonight's graduation does not include a prayer as originally proposed.
In a victory for Louisianans with disabilities, today a federal court in New Orleans entered a consent decree requiring adequate treatment and care long denied to detainees with mental illness housed in the state's prisons.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana called on the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) today to clarify that new mothers do not have to disclose private medical information before birth certificates are issued for their newborns.