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
In January 2016, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States. CCR co-coordinated the Working Group's visit to New York City, and...
Updated: September 15, 2016
Indefinite solitary confinement numbers down by 99% A year after the historic settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California mandated an end to indefinite solitary confinement in California, new data...
Updated: October 21, 2016
- Turkmen v. Ashcroft was first filed on April 17, 2002, on behalf of three non-citizens and a putative class of Arab, South Asian and Muslim men arrested on immigration charges and detained in...
Updated: November 22, 2016
On November 21, 2016, CCR joined a coalition letter to President Obama urging him to take action to rescind the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System (NSEERS) regulatory framework...
Updated: December 21, 2016
On April 24, 2017, CCR joined a coalition of organizations in a letter calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to disclose information related to the cooperation between federal and...
Updated: May 3, 2017
On May 8, 2017, CCR joined a coalition of human rights advocates calling on the U.S. Government to demosntrate leadership on human rights in the Americans, focusing on constructive engagement with...
Updated: May 25, 2017
On June 16, 2017, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its 23 member organizations in the Americas collaborated on an open letter to the Organization of American States requesting...
Updated: June 21, 2017
CCR joined a coalition of 350 local, state, and national immigrant, civil rights, human rights, faith-based, and anti-poverty organizations to urge Congress to oppose the Criminal Alien Gang Member...
Updated: September 13, 2017
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