Join with families who have lost loved ones to police murder at the 19th annual October 22nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality on October 22nd. Gather at 1:00 p.m. at Union Square, and...
Fall is in the air and CCR is excited to bring you another compelling issue at our next First Wednesday on October 1st! Did you know that the government operates a “No Fly List” in near-...
CCR Board President Jules Lobel will speak about the relationship between the legal and political struggle against solitary confinement in California at an event with Legal Services for Prisoners...
Please join the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign on Monday, August 4, 2014 as we remember Yassin Aref on the ten-year anniversary of his arrest by the federal government. CCR Senior Staff Attorney...
Join CCR at our monthly First Wednesday social to mingle with radical minds and for a short program about hunger strikers. We will discuss what inspires the world's longest hunger striker to continue...
By Alexis Agathocleous and Rachel Meeropol, senior attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights When Todd Ashker was transferred to the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California's Pelican Bay...
On July 8, 2013, 30,000 prisoners refused their meals, launching the largest mass prison hunger strike in U.S. history. One year later, Todd Ashker is marking off his twenty-fourth year in Pelican...
By ERICA GOODE More than 200 inmates at Pelican Bay, California’s toughest prison, have spent over a decade locked in windowless 8-foot-by-12-foot cells for 22 hours or more a day. Dozens more have...
June 2, 2014, Oakland – Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the...
