Too often youth in Maine are taken into custody and have their lives destroyed when restorative justice programs could help them instead.

Louisiana is in the top 10 states for child poverty and ranks low for health support for children.

A century of degradation and rising seas put Louisiana’s fragile coastal ecosystem at risk, polluting bayous with saltwater and washing the land away.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some for prison reform including in Louisiana which has the nation’s highest incarceration rate.

Louisiana is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.

Louisiana is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, including by nitrogen hypoxia which is not allowed for dogs.

Kentucky has the least amount of protected land in the country, and needs wildlife corridors and more protected natural areas.

Mountain top mining and coal mines have had a devastating effect on the health of people and the landscape in Kentucky.

Kentucky is in the top 10 for child poverty and ranks low for health support for children.

Kentucky is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country

Kentucky’s gun laws are among the worst in the United States and the state has one of the higher rates of gun violence in the country.

Police raids on the homes of employees of the Marion County Record interferes with First Amendment news gathering.

Kansas is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.

Kansas aims to disenfranchise voters including through the attempt to prohibit counties from their practice of proactively mailing ballots applications.

Kansas is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Kansas suffers gun violence rates above the national average and 18- to 20-year-olds are allowed to carry concealed, loaded handguns in public without a permit, including on college and university campuses.

Iowa allows law enforcement to arrest undocumented immigrants for being suspected of being illegal.

Iowa limits voting access including early voting, absentee voting, and voting by mail.

Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is banned after 22 weeks in Iowa and patients are forced to get ultrasounds even if medically unnecessary.

Iowa is trying to lift protections to let children work in hazardous setting while granting employer immunity in civil liability cases for workplace injuries.