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...
Stephanie Llanes, and John Cusick NY State Capitol. Mothers of New Yorkers killed by police. (Photo by Nahal Zamani) They went to Albany seeking a measure of justice, a guarantee that other families...
Settlement Reached in California Class Action Suit Moves Out of SHU Those There 10 Years or Longer, Ends Solitary Purely Due to Gang Validation September 1, 2015, Oakland – Today, the parties have...
Stanley Nelson’s latest film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution , is an important lesson. Not strictly a history lesson, charting the dramatic rise and fall of one of the most vibrant...
Palestine Legal Responded to Nearly 300 Incidents in 2014-2015; 85 Percent Targeted Students and Scholars on More Than 65 College Campuses September 30, 2015 - A new report, “ The Palestine Exception...
By now, much ink has been spilled in rightful condemnation of Donald Trump’s call on Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The New York Daily News ran an...
As a Japanese lawyer studying in the United States, I came across CCR’s case Hassan v. City of New York , a lawsuit challenging the blanket surveillance and religious profiling of Muslim communities...
As we begin a new year fighting for justice (our 50 th !), we’d like to thank the thousands of CCR supporters and donors who helped make last year’s victories possible and who, through their...
The movement to put private prison contractors out of business won some amazing victories in 2015. In the last two months, responding to organized action by California’s Afrikan Black Coalition and...
By Dima Khalidi, director of Palestine Legal and cooperating counsel with CCR For us Palestinian-Americans, the height of election year means it is cringe season. The American Israel Public Affairs...
