Mississippi

Wear That Dress or Else!

That’s basically what a high school principal told Ceara Sturgis at the start of her senior year — you’ve got to wear a “drape,” or scoop-necked covering that looks like the top of a dress, in the yearbook photo. Cear...

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Categories: Ceara Sturgis, gender discrimination, LGBT rights, LGBT Youth, Mississippi, sex discrimination   Tags:

Wear That Dress or Else!

That’s basically what a high school principal told Ceara Sturgis at the start of her senior year — you’ve got to wear a “drape,” or scoop-necked covering that looks like the top of a dress, in the yearbook photo. Cear...

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by ACLU Updates - at 3:59 pm

Categories: Ceara Sturgis, gender discrimination, LGBT rights, LGBT Youth, Mississippi, sex discrimination   Tags:

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. Withover 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it's ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice system has fai...

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by ACLU Updates - August 19, 2011 at 12:28 pm

Categories: California, criminal justice, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Ohio, overincarceration, overincarceration clips, South Carolina, Texas   Tags: