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...
Today, nearly 14 years after the case began, the Supreme Court granted John Ashcroft and other Bush-era government officials’ requests to review CCR’s class action challenge to the post-9/11...
Today marks one year since the settlement in CCR’s class-action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California , which ended indeterminate long-term solitary confinement in California state prisons. As a...
While tech industry CEOs were cozying up to Trump , tech workers were modeling what resistance in the industry to the president-elect should look like. In an extraordinary letter , more than 1,200...
On January 18, 2017, CCR will argue the last case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during Obama’s presidency, Ziglar v. Abbasi , which by the time it is decided may become the most important...
Whether it’s taking on the federal government, powerful corporations, or the NYPD, CCR never backs down from a fight when marginalized communities and individuals have suffered injustice. And we don’...
The cancellation of a Black Lives Matter benefit concert Sunday because the Movement for Black Lives platform “accuses Israel of genocide and endorses a range of boycott and sanction actions” is the...
More than a decade after graphic images of the American-run prison camp Abu Ghraib in Iraq were leaked, four of the cleared detainees are finally getting their day in court. But will accountability...
Fordham Law School hosted a discussion on the policy challenges, legal concerns, and security considerations relating to the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.