An oversight hearing about solitary confinement in California is scheduled for Monday, February 25, 2013. The hearing will be chaired by Tom Ammiano, chair of the Public Safety Committee. In May 2012...
Updated: February 21, 2013
January 6, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today six civil and human rights groups filed an emergency petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to halt the...
Join advocates, organizers, artists, and Guantánamo survivors on January 11, 2023, for a virtual rally to mark 21 years since the Guantánamo Bay prison was opened as part of the so-called...
Updated: January 6, 2023
CCR and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) during its 164th session for a merits hearing in our case,...
Updated: August 31, 2017
May 2012The prolonged use of solitary confinement at a high-security prison in California "strips prisoners of their basic humanity" and amounts to illegal torture, a human rights group charged in a federal...
September 2, 2015Thousands of prisoners will be moved out of solitary confinement in California, thanks to a landmark legal settlement announced this week. Grass-roots organizing can be tough, but when done by...
September 2, 2015Thousands of prisoners will be moved out of solitary confinement in California, thanks to a landmark legal settlement announced this week. Grass-roots organizing can be tough, but when done by...
October 24, 2022...five years ago, when the Pentagon implemented its ban, officials claimed that it was “because the exhibition included an email address for people interested in buying artwork by the prisoners,...
November 18, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the ACLU of Southern California sent the following letter to UCLA today regarding violations of the right to free expression and political...
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