Research & Publications

Step Aside Project 2025, We Have a Vision for 2030. The ACLU of Alabama is proud to release its first-ever public strategic plan moving towards 2030. This report states who we are, our values, and our intended impact on the state of Alabama.

If Alabama were to follow these and other reforms in this Smart Justice 50-State Blueprint, 12,511 fewer people would be in prison in Alabama by 2025, saving nearly $470 million that could be invested in schools, services, and other resources that would strengthen communities.

By studying ICE records, the authors of this report found deep, systemic problems with the medical care in those facilities—failures that contributed to death in more than half of the cases reported by ICE for the 16 months between December 2015 and April 2017.

One in three adults in this country has a debt that has been turned over to a private collection agency. Thousands of debtors are arrested and jailed each year because they owe money. Millions more are threatened with jail.

The Prison Policy Initiative and ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice’s report, Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017, offers a deeper understanding of the fastest-growing segment of the incarcerated population: women.

This report details the ways companies can combat the ills of decades of mass incarceration, while at the same tapping into the potential energy of a workforce of millions. The bottom line: doing good is good for business.