August 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
November 2012CCR Executive Director Vince Warren discusses Guantanamo, military tribunals, and the rule of law in the New York Times. Guantánamo was an international symbol of lawlessness and abuse in 2008 when...
After unusual firings, Trump braces for damning testimony from FBI veterans. Two people who knew Comey long before the Russia probe speak out on how he “follows the evidence wherever it goes.” CCR...
Updated: March 23, 2018
May 22, 2020... Rachel Meeropol, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights also representing the class, tells The Progressive that prison officials informed her that they had “taken some...
Please join CCR and partners in court for oral argument in Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in solitary confinement in California’s...
Updated: February 22, 2018
Please join us at the Iraq War Anniversary Film Screening...
Updated: March 19, 2018
September 1, 2015Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being restricted to solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in...
September 1, 2015Prison officials, civil rights organizations, former guards and gang members have expressed widespread support of a legal settlement between the state of California and Pelican Bay state prison that...
October 3, 2017Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
September 27, 2016In the days after the 9/11 attacks, Congress was asked to give President Bush the authority to use the military “to deter and preempt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the United...
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