The Center for Constitutional Rights, The New Press , and DCTV invite you to a special evening spotlighting the voices of those affected by solitary confinement. Join us on Wednesday, April 20, at...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on Monday, April 4. The April vigil will make connections between imprisonment of Muslims and the...
Join CCR President and Pittsburgh Law Professor Jules Lobel , CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous , and other experts from a variety of disciplines and countries to talk about solitary...
CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous will join a vibrant panel of artists, lawyers, and human rights advocates to discuss the " Index of the Disappeared ," a physical archive that...
April 12, 2016, New York – Today, civil rights, human rights, and community groups held a rally and vigil at One Police Plaza, demanding an end to the pervasive abuse of Ahmed Ferhani and other...
The Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will host an all-day conference examining how city policies and infrastructure work to promote or undermine health...
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...