News & Commentary about Medical and Mental Health Care
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The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
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Jan 11, 2018
How Poor Health Care Turned Walter Jordan’s Prison Sentence Into a Death Sentence
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Aug 16, 2017
Overcrowding in Nebraska’s Prisons Is Causing a Medical and Mental Health Care Crisis
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Mar 24, 2014
What's the Difference Between Force Feeding and Waterboarding?
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Jul 8, 2013
VIDEO: Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Undergoes Force-Feeding Endured by Guantánamo Hunger Strikers
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Jun 21, 2013
Efforts to Close Guantánamo Must Be Accompanied By an End to Force-Feeding
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May 14, 2013
ACLU Joins Human Rights Coalition Opposing Force-Feeding at Guantánamo
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May 1, 2013
Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Must End, As Should the Injustice Driving the Hunger Strike
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Apr 11, 2013
Urgent White House Action Needed to Avert Guantánamo Human Rights Crisis