...Also that September, California agreed to restrict its controversial practices of solitary confinement. The class action lawsuit was brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights, which alleged...
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...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will both join distinguished panels of legal experts as part of a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar with...
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...
This coming Sunday marks Mother’s Day, a holiday with roots in the post-Civil War burgeoning feminist and pacifist movements in the U.S. In its modern incarnation, Mother’s Day has become a more...