The Utah Constitution bars “cruel and unusual punishment” using language that mirrors the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition under...
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The ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative and Trone Center for Justice and Equality, along with the ACLU of Utah and the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association, filed an amicus brief defending the civil...
With the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, we filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in Medina v. Hon. Allen in the Tenth Circuit on September 19, 2023. We argued that Plaintiffs sufficiently...
After Davis County rebuffed our multiple requests to obtain the standards and audits for its county jail, we joined with the Disability Law Center to file a lawsuit to force the county to turn over these...
On May 16, 2018 the ACLU of Utah filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dustin Porter and Steven Drollette (“Plaintiffs”) seeking damages and injunctive relief for a pattern of severe cruelty against them while they...