CCR periodically writes in-depth reports on critical issues that affect our litigation. We have authored reports on jail expansion in upstate and suburban New York, torture at Guantánamo, extraordinary rendition, and resettlement issues and concerns of ex-detainees, among others.
This list can be ordered by date or name, and filtered by the issues to which the report relates.
Open Letter in Response to the Closing of the Berks County Family Shelter Care Center and Solicitation of New Family Detention Beds Attention: John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
Prepared for the 9th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, this position paper explores the link between the death row experience and torture.
Click here to download the White Paper.
James Madison once said that “a popular government without information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” The challenge Madison noted two centuries…
In March 2011, the United States government formally accepted recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council. This marks the first time the United States has been formally reviewed under the Universal Period Review (UPR)…
In light of recent reports that the Obama Administration is considering easing restrictions on travel to Cuba, CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren issued an Open Letter today to President Obama, taking issue with opponents’ claims…
Issued October 2009 by the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice Introduction Starting in 1996 the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) contracted with MCI/Verizon to provide collect call service for people in prison and…
In 2008, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with partners from the US Human Rights Network, the Justice Committee and Peoples' Justice coalition presented testimony to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism on…
This paper is released as part of our 100 Days white paper series. Amend the War Powers Resolution provides an overview of executive abuse of war-making power, and calls for restoring checks and balances. It…
Currently at Guantánamo, the majority of detainees are being held in conditions of solitary confinement in one of two super-maximum facilities – Camps 5 and 6 – or in Camp Echo. The conditions in these…
This paper, released as part of our 100 Days white paper series, “Ending Arbitrary Detention, Torture and Extraordinary Rendition” presents a vision to President Obama that lays out the history of the systematic assault on…
CCR's has published a new factsheet on NYPD Stop and Frisk Statistics from 2009 and 2010. Click here to access it.
This report released by the Center for Constitutional Rights includes the newest and most comprehensive numbers and lists of detainee status by nationality. The three simple steps are: 1) send those who can go home…
In September 2002, as he was on his way home to Canada, CCR client Maher Arar was sent by U.S. officials to be detained and interrogated under torture in Syria under a program known as…
This paper, one of CCR's 100 Days to Restore the Constitution series, explores the current situation of attacks upon and criminalization of dissent, from the surveillance of activists to the federalization of local law enforcement, to the labeling…
Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the "war on terror," according to a new report by human rights experts at…
Introduction There are a number of detainees at Guantánamo from "high-risk" countries where there is a very real danger of persecution or torture should they be forcibly returned, or who are unable to return to their…
Four months after 9/11, on January 11, 2002, the U.S. military flew 20 prisoners from Afghanistan to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More would soon follow, as would allegations of torture and…
The Center for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce a monthly newsletter: the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative News Briefing.
Know Before You Go - A Guide for Traveling to Cuba
This Handbook explains how a person in a state prison can start a lawsuit in the federal court, to fight against mistreatment and bad conditions. The Handbook does not assume that a lawsuit is the…
At Guantánamo, Mohammed al Qahtani was subjected to a regime of aggressive interrogation techniques, known as the “First Special Interrogation Plan,” that were authorized by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Those techniques were implemented…
Victims of the most serious human rights abuses often have no way to seek justice in their home countries. This may be because the government and courts at home are corrupt, or controlled by the…
The Military Commissions Act was prompted, in part, by the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld which rejected the President’s creation of military commissions by executive fiat and held…
President Bush’s announcement of the transfer of so-called “high-value detainees” from secret CIA ghost detention sites to Guantánamo was a thinly-veiled attempt by the Administration to re-shape the image of Guantánamo – and the men…
