This month the Tribeca film festival will be premiering the new film SOLITARY , directed by Kristi Jacobson, which gives an unprecedented glimpse into what life in solitary confinement looks like for...
As Attica prisoner Ahmed Ferhani hangs onto life following a suicide attempt, his supporters gathered at Manhattan's One Police Plaza to shed light on a case that once set New York City abuzz with...
Here’s what it’s like to be in solitary confinement in a supermax prison—you are locked into your 8- by-10-foot cell for 23 hours per day, where the lights are on all the time. There are no windows...
State and European prison officials, academics, scientists, attorneys, released former inmates and others will gather in Pittsburgh this week to discuss prolonged solitary confinement in prison — as...
Thirteen years ago, I received a letter at work. “Greetings from Hell,” it began. “For those who’ve never been there, that would be a prison in East Texas.” The letter was neatly hand-written with...
Last weekend, a group of formerly incarcerated people and their family members, social scientists, neuroscientists, medical researchers, reform-minded prison officials, litigators, activists, and UN...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on May 2. The May vigil will focus on the case of Ahmed Ferhani. In early April, Ahmed was put into...
"When we were sentenced to death," wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, "we weren't sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept...
It is with a very heavy heart that we write to tell you of a great loss to our family. Today, we lost one of the great social justice warriors of our time, Michael Ratner. In July 2015, Michael fell...
The groundbreaking human rights attorney Michael Ratner has died at the age of 72. For over four decades, he defended, investigated and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world...
