To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...

Today, nearly 14 years after the case began, the Supreme Court granted John Ashcroft and other Bush-era government officials’ requests to review CCR’s class action challenge to the post-9/11...

Today marks one year since the settlement in CCR’s class-action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California , which ended indeterminate long-term solitary confinement in California state prisons. As a...

CCR’s long-standing challenge to the experimental prison units known as Communication Management Units , or “CMUs,” got an important boost this week with the filing of two separate friend-of-the-...