Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least 22 ½ hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are denied telephone calls,...
Updated: August 15, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the...
Updated: November 3, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: February 18, 2025
CCR has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the U.S. government’s failures to...
Updated: March 18, 2016
Issued October 2009 by the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice Introduction Starting in 1996 the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) contracted with MCI/Verizon to provide...
Updated: January 11, 2010
There has been dramatic growth in the number of people held in local jails in New York State in the last decade, with the total capacity of jails in upstate New York and Long Island increasing by 20...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Prepared for the 9th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, this position paper explores the link between the death row experience and torture. To read an op-ed by Rachel and Robert Meeropol...
Updated: May 16, 2012
Since 1974, the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook has supported people who are incarcerated, their families, and advocates in challenging mistreatment and abuse in prisons. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: August 23, 2021
In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the death penalty...
Updated: November 18, 2013
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the...
Updated: April 8, 2025
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