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The Kansas and Missouri American Civil Liberties Union affiliates sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons on September 6 on behalf of a newly admitted inmate who could die because prison officials prohibit a lifesaving drug used to treat his opioid addiction.
The ACLU of Kansas filed suit in U.S. District court Thursday in defense of environmental activists attacked in a baseless, retaliatory ‘consumer protection’ investigation last year by an official with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC).
In a case harkening back to the draconian penalties of ancient Greece or the Old West, the ACLU of Kansas filed a motion Wednesday on behalf of a Southeast Kansas man prosecutors have “banished” from the state as a part of his plea agreement.
Nadine Farid Johnson, a former United States diplomat and constitutional law professor, will lead the ACLU of Kansas, the affiliate announced Monday (July 8). Johnson’s first day in the Overland Park office will be July 15.