Join us on Wednesday, October 9th at 1:00 pm for an important hearing on the use of solitary confinement in California prisons before the California Assembly Public Safety Committee in Sacramento...
Join us for a discussion panel as part of the launch of a joint report by Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) examining the United States’...
... According to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of a number of prisoners, the CMUs are analogous to solitary confinement -- an "experiment in social isolation...
September 5, 2013, New York – In response to the announcement today that prisoners in Security Housing Units (SHU) throughout California have suspended their third hunger strike after nine...
Jules Lobel, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is the lead attorney representing Pelican Bay prisoners in a lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement in California prisons...
July 15, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the dismissal of the claims in a federal lawsuit that plaintiff...
"On Monday, 30,000 prisoners in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in California went on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and security unit conditions -- risking...
Featuring the NYC screening of the short film ISN 310: Djamel Ameziane's Decade in Guantánamo * Special Guests: Vanessa Redgrave (actor, activist), Mia Farrow (actor, activist) Scott Horton (...
Please join CCR, Maysles Cinema and others for an important and timely discussion titled "Fists and Guns: Harlem Then & Now." The panel will feature CCR Education and Outreach Director...
