August 31, 2015Each year, 400,000 immigrants enter the immigration detention system, charged not with crimes but with civil violations of immigration law. Few have lawyers. The Obama Administration has deported...
The University of Dayton is hosting the biennial conference The Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and Advocacy on October 1-3, 2015. This three-day conference will...
Updated: September 9, 2015
September 1, 2015The nationwide movement to end solitary confinement is growing – even attracting the attention of a Supreme Court justice – and today it took a significant step forward. CCR and the State of...
September 2015: Landmark settlement ends indeterminate long-term solitary in CA. This is the story of the prisoners who led the fight to make it happen.
Updated: September 1, 2015
When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
This settlement represents a monumental victory for prisoners and an important step toward our goal of ending solitary confinement in California, and across the country. California’s agreement to...
Updated: September 1, 2015
Settlement Reached in California Class Action Suit Moves Out of SHU Those There 10 Years or Longer, Ends Solitary Purely Due to Gang Validation September 1, 2015, Oakland – Today, the parties have...
August 31, 2015I feel like there is a heavy weight on my chest – it’s as if I’m breathing through a needle hole. And then I ask myself, “If I write or say something, is anybody going to listen to me? Is it really...
September 1, 2015California has agreed to an overhaul of its use of solitary confinement in its prisons, including strict limits on the prolonged isolation of inmates, as part of a landmark legal settlement filed in...
September 1, 2015..."I think there is a deepening movement away from solitary confinement in the country and I think this settlement will be a spur to that movement," Jules Lobel, the inmates' lead attorney and...
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