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A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union goes into detail about one student’s treatment on the cross-country and track teams and notes that she felt targeted.

Workers removed tents set up outside of Rhode Island’s State House on Saturday after a judge sided with Democratic Gov. Dan McKee in a lawsuit over the people who had been camping there to protest a lack of adequate housing. The ACLU and the R.I. Center for Justice had sued on behalf of the group of more than two...

Cristhian Geigel, 39, died while in police custody at a Boston precinct according to a new lawsuit filed this month by Geigel’s family.

The Massachusetts House on Saturday rejected a Gov. Charlie Baker plan to overhaul how criminal defendants can be deemed dangerous and detained, spiking his last-minute effort to attach the controversial measure to another criminal justice reform push. The House voted 31-122 to shoot down a state budget amendment Baker sent back (H 5112), which appended a narrower version of the…

Sue O’Connell spoke with Jessica Arons, senior policy counsel for the ACLU, about what other actions the Supreme Court could be targeting after overturning Roe v. Wade.

A Salvadoran man who claims he was jailed, beaten and tortured after being wrongfully deported from the United States filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government seeking damages for his treatment. José Daniel Guerra-Castañeda, 25, who has since been returned to the United States and lives in Massachusetts, said in the lawsuit filed on his behalf by the ACLU…

The Rhode Island prison system has been ordered to release three inmates granted parole for crimes they committed when they were teenagers, according to a local civil liberties group. Pablo Ortega, Joao Neves, and Keith Nunes had been each given life sentences for murder as teenagers and were recently granted parole, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday. But the…

Carol Rose of the ACLU of Massachusetts responds to the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding Texas’ restrictive new abortion law.

A Rhode Island man involved in a legal tussle with the town of Portsmouth earlier this year over signs on his property critical of town officials is back at it. Michael DiPaola recently bought a plot of land on a busy road on which he placed more signs, including one that includes a picture of actors Jim Carrey and Jeff…

A federal judge has ruled that evidence seized by police officers during a traffic stop cannot be used in a case that has touched off a debate about racial profiling in Maine. The case concerns Trooper John Darcy, who was recorded talking to another trooper on a cruiser microphone just before stopping a Black motorist driving through York in August…

A Superior Court judge is expected to decide Wednesday whether the City of Boston should stop evicting people from a homeless encampment in the area known as Mass. and Cass.