Inspiration from Isolation Please join us Sunday, March 15th at 12:30 pm in Inglewood for Inspiration from Isolation , a presentation featuring CCR President Jules Lobel discussing new expert...
Join CCR at the Brooklyn Public Library for a film screening of Herman's House and community conversation with Executive Director Vince Warren and others about the justice system in New York, in...
For almost two decades through litigation, legislative advocacy, research, and social movement support, CCR has challenged and sought to reform abusive and discriminatory policing policies and...
The Justice Department has reportedly concluded it will not bring civil rights charges against police officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
In the small community of Newburgh, New York a mysterious businessman infiltrates a local mosque supposedly looking to cultivate business associates. He is in fact working as an informant for the FBI...
Our Post 9/11 World: Challenging the Kafkaesque No Fly List Did you know that the government operates a “No Fly List” under near-total secrecy, never telling people on the List why they are listed or...
“We Tortured Some Folks” —Now what? With the release of the Senate CIA Torture Report earlier this month, the torture debate is going strong. Despite President Obama’s admission that “we crossed a...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, one of three federal immigration groups within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), oversees the detention of hundreds of...
A federal appeals court has allowed a group of immigrants to proceed with a lawsuit accusing Bush administration officials of widespread constitutional violations after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
At last count, there were an estimated 80,000 prisoners in isolation across the United States. ... There are more than 1,000 prisoners in isolation in Pelican Bay alone. For 25 years, until a 2011...