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...
In April 2014, hundreds of documents detailing the process for designating and keeping prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons Communications Management Units (CMUs) were made public for the first...
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...
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...
The parties in the stop-and-frisk litigation have asked Southern District Judge Analisa Torres ( See Profile) to resolve motions to intervene by police unions who oppose a settlement between the...
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...
