News & Commentary

ACLU of Arizona Community Partnership Coordinator Khalil Rushdan will present a response to the Governor’s State of the State during a Facebook livestream event. His remarks are below.

The following letter was written by a person living in an Arizona state prison. The ACLU of Arizona is sharing the letter with permission from the author’s family.

For years, the Arizona Department of Corrections (recently renamed Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry), has demonstrated a deeply rooted culture of dehumanization and has failed to provide even basic medical care to people.

The suffering inside ICE detention facilities is heart-wrenching, wrong and unnecessary. ICE's own policies allow them to use their discretion to release migrants on humanitarian parole in cases where detaining a person is causing them harm and danger.

All four candidates running for Maricopa County Attorney have completed and returned a candidate questionnaire created by the ACLU of Arizona Campaign for Smart Justice. Read their responses and make an informed vote.

On January 30, five candidates running for Maricopa County Attorney made their case to voters during the first candidate town hall of the election cycle.

A poll shows that likely Arizona voters from a variety of political backgrounds want a reform-minded county attorney.

We cannot continue to treat vulnerable women, men, and children with indignity.

This Briefing Book for county attorney candidates outlines a number of policy reforms that lay out a pathway to ending mass incarceration and racial injustice in the criminal legal system.