October 10, 2017WASHINGTON - El Tribunal Supremo rechazó este martes bloquear la difusión de documentos del gobierno sobre los centros de detención de inmigrantes, en lo que supone una importante victoria en la...
October 11, 2017The Supreme Court ruled against two private prison corporations, GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America, which sought to block the release of records related to government contracts with...
CCR senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol will be speaking at the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) Prison Law 2017 webinar. This PLI program is designed for lawyers who represent incarcerated persons...
Updated: October 13, 2017
CCR staff attorney Britney Wilson will participate in a talk-back following the 7:50 p.m. screening of the documentary For Ahkeem at Village East Cinema. You can purchase tickets here . Beginning one...
Updated: October 13, 2017
October 13, 2017Oct 14, 2017 marks the 2 year anniversary of the approval of the Ashker settlement. We celebrate our victory in the Ashker case, in which virtually all of the over 1600 prisoners then languishing in...
October 16, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
October 23, 2017To 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...
October 23, 2017A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
November 7, 2017Seventy-five miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas, in the expanse of desert between the US/Mexico border and nestled between oil boomtowns of yesteryear, is Dilley, the epicenter of a new battle...
In collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Stanford University Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab has released a report titled Mental Health Consequences Following...
Updated: April 4, 2018
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