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Ensuring Access to Counsel in Ohio: Stories of Children Who Waived (03/09/2006)

Ensuring Access to Counsel in Ohio: Why Youth Waive Their Right to Counsel (03/09/2006)
A Fact Sheet by the ACLU, The Children's Law Center & The Office of the Ohio State Public Defender

Community Resolution for Norwalk, CT (07/14/2005)

Report by the Constitution Project, "Balancing Act - Legislative Power and Judicial Independence" (09/27/2004)

Combatting The Surveillance Industrial Complex (08/09/2004)
The Surveillance Industrial Complex: How the Government is Conscripting Individuals and Businesses in the Construction of a Surveillance Society

ACLU of WA Report on Indigent Defense (03/01/2004)

Sample of Resources (12/17/2002)

Stories of ACLU Clients Swept Up in the Hearne Drug Bust of November 2000 (11/01/2002)

10 Reasons to Oppose "3 Strikes, You're Out" (03/17/2002)

Links to Other Criminal Justice Sites (03/12/2002)

The Bill of Rights: A Brief History (03/04/2002)
In the summer of 1787, delegates from the 13 states convened in Philadelphia and drafted a remarkable blueprint for self-government -- the Constitution of the United States. The first draft set up a system of checks and balances that included a strong executive branch, a representative legislature and a federal judiciary.

Surprising Shift: New ACLU Poll Finds Public Dissatisfied with Lock-Em-Up Approach (02/25/2002)
WASHINGTON - A new poll commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union released today reveals a strong dissatisfaction with the current state of the criminal justice system in America and a growing public confidence in rehabilitation and alternative punishments for non-violent offenders.