August 27, 2015Tariq Ali Abdullah Ba Odah is a detainee at Guantánamo who the government has determined to be a member of al Qaeda and/or Taliban forces. Ba Odah filed a petition for habeas corpus to challenge that...
August 27, 2015A federal judge presiding over Steven Salaita's lawsuit has agreed to reinstate a claim that accuses the University of Illinois of destroying evidence about the decision to revoke Salaita's job. At a...
August 23, 2015First in a three-part report on solitary confinement use in U.S. prisons. Listen to the story or see the original piece here .
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...
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