Tomorrow, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California will take action to bring attention to prison conditions...
CCR is a proud community partner of Truth to Power , a dynamic and engaging pop-up art show, discussion salon, and performance space presented by Rock The Vote and #Cut50. The event,...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will provide the opening co-keynote address and join the final plenary at the University of Washington's conference titled, "Human Rights Abuses: Expose the Cover-...
August 18, 2016, New York – In response to the news that the Department of Justice will cease to use private prisons, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: CCR welcomes...
Decision Reinstates Lawsuit Over Communications Management Units August 19, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Today, the D.C. Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP)...
... The Center for Constitutional Rights also anticipated the DOJ’s shift in tactics on Thursday in a statement , lauding the decision while calling for the Department of Homeland Security to also...
The stock prices of the two biggest private prison companies in the United States nosedived on Thursday after the Department of Justice vowed to stop housing inmates at their facilities. It’s a...
After years of documented human rights abuses by the private prison industry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is finally ending its use of privately-run, for-profit prisons, the Washington Post...
Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia circuit reinstated a case challenging the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) use of secretive and experimental prison units known as communications...
