Join Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC)’s 2018 Advocacy Day in Albany on March 13 to demand that New York State Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature end the torture of...
Updated: January 29, 2018
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farah will speak at the 2018 annual Day of Remembrance Program and Community Potluck , hosted by the Japanese American United Church. This annual program commemorates...
Updated: February 15, 2018
Please join CCR and partners in court for oral argument in Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in solitary confinement in California’s...
Updated: February 22, 2018
Please join CCR and partners for Refest 2.0 , CultureHub's annual festival, which brings together artists, activists, and technologists to explore technology's role in shaping our future. In this "un...
Updated: March 7, 2018
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel asked a federal judge to order the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to comply with
February 26, 2018The landmark, class action settlement in CCR’s case challenging long-term solitary confinement, Ashker v. Governor of California , brought widespread reform to the practice of solitary in California...
On Friday March 16th as CCR’s Azure Wheeler will be arguing that an element of the settlement agreement—the creation of a unit to house prisoners whom the California Department of Corrections and...
Updated: February 28, 2018
March 23, 2018...Boyle said Bell skipped out on the event at the Center for Constitutional Rights near NYU because of attacks in the media. “The fact is that Mr. Bell has taken responsibility for his actions, has...
Activism Needed to Remedy Solitary Conditions in Prisons, Civil Rights Attorneys Say March 28, 2018, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal judge declined to order the California Department of Corrections...
April 3, 2018Herman Bell, a 70-year-old former Black Panther and political prisoner, was recently granted parole after being behind bars for 45 years and denied parole seven previous times. In response, interest...
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