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The constitutional challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations came to an end once their clients accused of capital crimes no longer faced the ultimate punishment.

Over 200 people from dozens of nonprofits showed up to the Convention Center Tuesday to share ideas. The group heard from United Way of Kansas City’s President, the Executive Director of ACLU Kansas, leaders from the Missouri Budget Project.

Advocates for weed, like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and opponents of legalization, like the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Kansas Office of the Attorney General, continue to clash regularly in Kansas, arguing their cases for why marijuana should be given the green light

It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Apparently, private prison company CoreCivic never got the memo.

The American Civil Liberties Union and federal public defenders sent a letter to the White House documenting their concerns. Beatings and stabbings were rampant, suicides were prevalent, sexual assault reports were discouraged, and the company failed to report the death of an inmate for six days.

CoreCivic, the second largest private prison company in America, is seeking to reactivate a shuttered facility in Leavenworth as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

“Kansas’s system is the envy of the nation,” said Micah Kubic, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Kansas.“There are a bunch of other states that have adopted similar systems, but now the legislature wants to upend all of that.

Loud Light and ACLU of Kansas brought the Lawrence community together on Monday night to give updates on anti-trans legislation and groups that have helped combat the anti-trans rhetoric.

“This is a blatant attack by the legislators on our justices, and it’s part of a decades-long pattern of politicians attempting to punish the judicial branch for issuing decisions on education and reproductive freedom that they disagree with,” said Micah Kubic, executive director of ACLU of Kansas.