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. “...
It is well-known that the United States incarcerates more people than any other country. While the US makes up only 5% of the global population, it holds a quarter of the world's prisoners. The US’s...
Over 1,000 people from across the country came together on July 31 and August 1 in Harlem, New York, to help vision and build the legal arm of the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement. The #...
On November 8, 2013, I was finally released from Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (SHU). Pelican Bay prison is in the city of Crescent City, California. My name is Art N. Ramirez. At...
Private Prison Corporations Fail to Prevent Release of Immigration Detention Documents April 12, 2017, New York – Last night, the two largest private prison corporations in the U.S. suffered their...
Please join CCR and other allies in the #CLOSERikers campaign at a rally at City Hall . The #CLOSErikers campaign launched on the steps of City Hall in April 2016. One year later, we have grown in...
To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
