Ruling extends landmark settlement agreement to end indefinite solitary confinement in California February 3, 2022, Oakland, CA ‒ A federal judge ruled yesterday that the California Department of...
President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin are failing in their legal duty to prevent, and not further, this most serious of crimes
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
Trump Administration Plans Mass Detention of Immigrants at Notorious Military Prison February 10, 2025, Albuquerque, NM – Last night, a federal court granted the request of three men in immigration...
Mr. Khalil was unlawfully detained by ICE last week because of his pro-Palestine advocacy at Columbia University NEW YORK — In a fight to get recent Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil back to...
T he new filing in federal court comes after ICE said they would keep Mr. Khalil detained based on false allegations following a court ruling that detention on the Secretary of State’s say-so is...
August 21, 2008, New Yor k – Late yesterday afternoon, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued urgent precautionary measures to protect Djamel Ameziane , an Algerian citizen held...
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...