PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 20 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release on April 18: The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and the National ACLU have filed an emergency lawsuit seeking the immediate release of three immigrants being detained at the Wyatt Detention Center who are at high risk for serious illness or death in the event of COVID-19 infection. Describing in detail "unhygienic conditions" at the facility that place the   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 21 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: The ACLU released a report showing that Black people in Rhode Island are 3.3 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana possession despite comparable marijuana usage rates among the two racial groups. Similar arrest disparities were documented in a 2013 report issued by the ACLU, but they have gotten worse, not better, over the past decade. The report  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 25 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: Ruling on an emergency ACLU lawsuit, U.S. District Court Judge William Smith this morning issued a temporary restraining order providing for the release by 5 PM of two immigrants being detained at the Wyatt Detention Center who are at high risk for serious illness or death in the event of COVID-19 infection. The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and the Nation  more

EAST PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 23 -- The American Journal on Addictions, a journal that says it features topics ranging from codependence to genetics, epidemiology to dual diagnostics, etiology to neuroscience from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2020 issue: * Cumulative Risk of Substance Use in Community College Students * Does Cannabis Dependence Add on to the Neurocognitive Impairment Among Patients With Op  more