Press Releases
Criminal Justice
Supreme Court Must Uphold the Sixth Amendment
Brennan Center for Justice files a friend of the court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Sixth Amendment’s requirement that people are provided with counsel in a very timely manner.
– 01/31/08
Census Bureau Releases Superficial Report
– 02/23/06
New Report: “Accuracy Counts”
– 04/08/04
FCC Urged to Lower Phone Rates for Prison Inmates
A filing today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asks the agency to examine the harm caused by high phone rates charged to people in prison, and criticizes the relationships between prison administrators and commercial phone companies that give rise to the unusually high rates.
– 03/10/04