On November 8, 2013, I was finally released from Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (SHU). Pelican Bay prison is in the city of Crescent City, California. My name is Art N. Ramirez. At...
Private Prison Corporations Fail to Prevent Release of Immigration Detention Documents April 12, 2017, New York – Last night, the two largest private prison corporations in the U.S. suffered their...
Please join CCR and other allies in the #CLOSERikers campaign at a rally at City Hall . The #CLOSErikers campaign launched on the steps of City Hall in April 2016. One year later, we have grown in...
To 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...
One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
This coming Sunday marks Mother’s Day, a holiday with roots in the post-Civil War burgeoning feminist and pacifist movements in the U.S. In its modern incarnation, Mother’s Day has become a more...
To 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...
CCR is pleased to cosponsor the next No Separate Justice vigil, which will focus on the U.S. government’s use of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) and highlight the case of Ahmed Abu Ali who has...
CCR Bertha Justice Institute Fellow Stephanie Llanes will be speaking at the 2017 Summit on Latin@s on a panel, Criminal Justice and Police-Community Relations . The Summit on Latin@s seeks to...
...Crucially, these lobbying efforts help keep in place the the controversial immigrant detention bed quota , which requires ICE to maintain and pay for at least 31,000 beds at all times The...
