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Aug 24, 2021

Disability Rights Groups Challenge South Carolina Ban on School Mask Mandates

Disability rights groups and parents of children with disabilities filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a South Carolina law that bans school districts from imposing mask mandates in schools.

Jul 29, 2021

Rights Groups Announce Settlement in Lawsuit Challenging the Spartanburg County Detention Center’s Failure to Protect Incarcerated People from COVID-19

We, along with the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center, Root & Rebound, Wyche, P.A., and Disability Rights South Carolina (formerly known as Protection and Advocacy for People with...

Jul 19, 2021

New ACLU of South Carolina Report Documents the Human and Fiscal Costs of South Carolina’s Draconian Sentencing Laws and Broken Prison System

For half a century South Carolina has embraced draconian sentencing laws that have destroyed lives and communities and contributed to the explosive growth of both jail and prison populations. It doesn’t have...

Jun 22, 2021

Justice for All Coalition Releases Plan for Building a Safer and More Just County Public Safety System in Charleston County

Today Charleston-area advocates, the Justice for All Coalition, sent a memo to Charleston County leaders outlining a series of reforms that each entity must take to make Charleston County safer and more just...

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Jun 21, 2021

SC Lawmakers Must Reject the South Carolina Healthcare Denial Act

Today a SC Senate Medical Affairs Sub-Committee heard some testomony (they cut off testimony before we could all speak) on S.811, a bill that would give medical...

Jun 17, 2021

We Must End the War on Drugs (and the Vast Majority of Americans Agree!)

Fifty years ago today, the U.S. government launched a seemingly endless war on its people. The “war on drugs” has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars into policing and prisons. It has helped turn America...