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...
May 8, 2018...Manny Jones, the brother of slain Police Officer Waverly Jones, decried Bell’s release by saying, “He should come home when my brother comes home.” But the officer’s son, Waverly Jones, Jr.,...
Join the staff at the Center for Constitutional Rights from 6-9 p.m., June 21, 2018 as we celebrate our new podcast, The Activist Files and its official launch on iTunes! The Activist Files features...
Updated: September 7, 2018
June 1, 2018As the San Francisco BayView goes to press, a critical ruling is soon expected in Ashker v. Brown (aka Ashker v. Governor, Docket No. 4:09-cv-09-5796 CW (N.D. Cal.)), the federal class-action lawsuit...
Please join the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), First Peoples Disability Network (Australia), Disability Rights Fund, and Human Rights Watch for an interactive...
Updated: June 13, 2018
July 13, 2018On July 8, 2013, more than 30,000 incarcerated men and women across California began refusing to eat . It was the start of the nation’s largest-ever prison hunger strike, and for some the fasting...
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