Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on Monday, April 4.

The April vigil will make connections between imprisonment of Muslims and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will discuss Aref v. Holder, CCR’s case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication Management Units.” The CMUs are experimental prison units that impose severe restrictions on prisoners’ communications, both within the prison and with the outside world. Our recent appeal argued that the federal government places and retains people in the CMUs arbitrarily, without due process, and in retaliation for protected speech and religious practice.

Learn more about the CMUs here, and the case here. Visit the NSJ website to learn more about the campaign.

Directions to Vigil: The closest subway to MCC is the 4, 5, or 6 train to Brooklyn Bridge. Walk up Centre Street to Foley Square and look for Pearl Street, which is in between the two large federal courthouses on Foley Square. Walk down Pearl Street one block to where it dead ends on Park Row. The vigil takes place on the corner across from the entrance to the MCC.