Telephone Justice for People in Prison Since 1999, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting on the ground and in the courts to end the exploitative telephone contract between New...
Updated: January 14, 2015
On October 7, 2011, Members of Congress wrote to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) with questions and concerns about the policies and practices at the Communications Management Units (CMUs), and...
Updated: October 13, 2011
On June 12, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted written testimony before the Public Safety Committee of the California State Senate on June 12, 2012 for a hearing Hearing on A...
Updated: September 11, 2012
On September 14, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a statement before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Democratic Policy Committee on the Effects of Solitary...
Updated: September 20, 2012
Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least 22 ½ hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are denied telephone calls,...
Updated: July 16, 2013
CCR has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the U.S. government’s failures to...
Updated: March 18, 2016
In 2010 and again in 2014, the Center for Constitutional Rights and a large coalition of organizations and concerned individuals came together to flood the Bureau of Prisons with public feedback...
Updated: August 27, 2015
On March 13, 2015, CCR and co-counsel submitted 10 reports in Ashker v. Brown , our federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California’s Pelican...
Updated: August 3, 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
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