Last Friday, October 14, marked one year since reforms began under the historic settlement agreement in CCR’s case Ashker v. Brown , which effectively ended long-term solitary confinement throughout...
Image: drawing by Marco Perez 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...
To mark 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...
To mark 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...
Today marks one year since the settlement in CCR’s class-action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California , which ended indeterminate long-term solitary confinement in California state prisons. As a...
Since 2009, appropriations bills passed by the U.S. Congress have required the funding of 34,000 immigration detention beds per day. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and...
CCR’s long-standing challenge to the experimental prison units known as Communication Management Units , or “CMUs,” got an important boost this week with the filing of two separate friend-of-the-...
Today we have filed an appeal to the D.C. Circuit in Aref v. Holder , marking the latest chapter in an eight-year challenge to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive “Communications Management Units...
Here at CCR, we often have the privilege of working closely with independent journalists to uncover civil and human rights abuses. From early in 2007, when CCR first began exploring “the green scare...
Today’s New York Times science section features a front-page piece about the research that CCR commissioned and compiled for our ground-breaking challenge to long-term solitary confinement. “...
