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Approximately 80,000
inmates are held in some form of solitary confinement
(SHU, ASU, Ad-Seg, Control Unit) across 44 States.
11,000 of these inmates are held in California State
prisons, the vast majority of them are people of color.
On March 20, 2012, approximately 400 California prisoners in segregation petitioned the United Nations (UN) to conduct an onsite investigation of the conditions of their imprisonment and issue a decision on whether these conditions violate international law, including the UN Convention Against Torture. The petitions have been submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. |
 Click on the image to enter the CA Prisoners Case page for detailed information regarding solitary confinement, the UN petitions, the hunger strikes, and any updates on our progress. |
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The
Center for Human Rights & Constitutional
Law, the Public Law Center, the Asian Law
Alliance, and the Law Offices of Manulkin
& Bennett filed suit on behalf of Irma
Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, Jane DeLeon,
Irma's immigrant spouse, and Martin Aranas,
Jane's son, challenging application of the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to deny
immigration benefits to same-sex spouses.
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 Click on the image to enter the DeLeon Lawsuit page and to get detailed information on our lawsuit, DOMA, and the story of Irma Rodriguez and Jane DeLeon. |
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The Casa Libre/Freedom Home is a licensed emergency and long-term 14-bed shelter for minors under the age of 18 without homes, including unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children.
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 Click on the image to enter the Casa Libre website and get detailed information about the history, the house, and the services provided. |
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The Voces Unidas project
has compiled a nationwide resource database of free or
low cost social and legal services for women and
children suffering from domestic abuse. The resource
database is available through this website free of
charge to legal services providers, pro bono lawyers,
community-based organizations, and individual advocates.
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 Click on the image to enter the Voces Unidas website to access collected information on domestic abuse. |
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This website is a portal for access to a wide range of information including news, studies, reports, policies, laws, pending legislation, and litigation regarding amnesty and legalization programs for undocumented immigrants. This site is also intended to serve as a tool for networking among legal services providers, immigration scholars, community-based immigration advocates, and immigrants themselves. Institutions, legal services providers, advocates, and individuals involved in issues relating to amnesty and legalization for undocumented immigrants, whether in the private, non-profit, or government sectors, are invited to contribute materials to this site. |
 Click on the image to enter the Legalization website to access collected information on immigration. |
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The Unaccompanied Minors Project seeks to address both policy issues relating to the treatment of unaccompanied migrant children, as well as mechanisms for the delivery of direct non-governmental community-based services to such children. Initially the focus of this work is on migrant children who have left their countries in order to enter the United States, or who have already entered the United States. As additional information is gathered from institutions and advocates outside of the United States working on behalf of unaccompanied migrant children, the scope of the project may expand to include issues in other countries, particularly in Central and South America. |
 Click on the image to enter the Unaccompanied Minors Project website to access collected information on unaccompanied migrant children. |
