News & Commentary

The number of people under the supervision of the Department of Corrections is skyrocketing, and Wyoming’s prisons are full. But this legislative session, the tide could turn.

Wyoming’s 2018 Budget Session is less than two weeks away, and while budget conversations will certainly dominate, a few bills have caught our attention.

Wyoming’s residents know the truth. It’s time that governmental officials follow suit and reject MTC’s proposal for what it is: a private prison designed to profit by putting immigrants in Wyoming behind bars.

There are more people behind bars or under the supervision of the criminal justice system in Wyoming than live in the entire city of Jackson. This is a problem, and it is one we cannot continue to wait to address.

The ACLU of Wyoming joined 13 legal service providers and immigrants’ rights organizations today to urge Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to abandon its plans to significantly expand immigrant detention at sites near four major cities.

ICE has ramped up its work in Wyoming, just as it has ramped up arrests and detentions across the country. Local communities across Wyoming are organizing coalitions and rapid response teams to deal with the impacts of ICE’s actions.

Hundreds of men have benefitted from Wyoming's Youthful Offender program — but not one woman.

Constitution Day is the holiday to end all holidays; it’s a day dedicated to the thing that drives our passion and that we fight to defend on behalf of all Wyomingites every day – the Constitution.

President Trump’s announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is a cruel development for Dreamers and a damaging decision for all of us in Wyoming and across America. The ACLU of Wyoming stands with Dreamers in here and across America.