Celebrate #GivingTuesday
Join us in celebrating Giving Tuesday, by making a gift to support our work. 2015 has been a big year for direct action and the CLDC. We worked with activists in Seattle and Portland as they held #ShellNo protests to stop shell from drilling in the arctic (which was...
Federal court rules in favor of prisoners’ rights to adequate medical treatment
This month, in Shadrick v. Hopkins County, the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a private, for-profit corporation providing medical services to prisoners may be liable for violating the federal constitutional rights of prisoners by failing to...
Transgender and Imprisoned
By Judah Largent, CLDC Law Clerk Prison holds a particular set of horrors for the transgender community. Until recently, American prisons housed transgender inmates by genitalia[1], and gender-confirming treatments of any kind were unavailable to the vast majority of...
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