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Maryland officially enacted the Second Look Act (HB 853), an important step to giving incarcerated individuals sentenced as emerging adults a meaningful opportunity to seek sentence modification after demonstrating their rehabilitation and transformation.
After years of tireless advocacy by families, formerly incarcerated people, and community leaders, the Maryland General Assembly has passed the Second Look Act (HB 853), providing a long-overdue pathway for sentence reconsideration grounded in rehabilitation, not retribution.
The ACLU of Maryland is calling on state legislators to vote in favor of the Maryland Second Look Act (HB 853)
After decades of struggle and advocacy, Wicomico County’s Black voters and civil rights organizations closed out Black History Month 2025 with a history-making victory of their own.
Calvert Sheriff Agrees to Produce Overdue Policing Records Free-of-Charge, Pay Legal Fees to ACLU, After Appeals Court Rejects Government Position as “Sheer Nonsense”
Question E Ratification Secures Local Control of BPD, After a 12-year Campaign