... Nearly five years ago, a group of men incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison reached a landmark legal settlement with California to end the state’s practice of long-term, indefinite solitary...
... Rachel Meeropol, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights also representing the class, tells The Progressive that prison officials informed her that they had “taken some...
...Right now, the “impossible” is happening every day. In Detroit, with COVID-19 bursting the boundaries of our everyday catastrophes, we are seeing astounding — and overdue — changes in police and...
Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Advocates Warn Outbreak Is Imminent Inside Prison May 27, 2020, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, several civil rights and racial justice groups filed a federal lawsuit calling for the release of people...
Belton v. Gautreaux is a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of people imprisoned at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana. The lawsuit and an accompanying motion for a temporary...
In the 26 th episode of “The Activist Files,” Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre are in conversation about how their work fighting abusive immigration...
...Several civil rights attorneys and organizations teamed up on the lawsuit, including the Advancement Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights . "Time is running out to save the lives of...
United to End Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration in Louisiana 12 p.m. CDT / 1 p.m. ET Join us for this important conversation co-hosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights, New...
Scott v. PA Board of Probation and Parole is a lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on behalf of six individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (DBI), also known...
