The movement to put private prison contractors out of business won some amazing victories in 2015. In the last two months, responding to organized action by California’s Afrikan Black Coalition and...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on February 3, 2016. We will begin our two-part First Wednesday series addressing the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S., and discussing two landmark cases that...
Revolving Door: Former Head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Office, Now High-Level Official at Major Detention Contractor, Asks Court to Support Secrecy December 23, 2015, New York – In a Freedom of...
More than 13 years after innocent Muslims faced prison abuses, "it is time to move the case forward" against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and others, two Second Circuit judges said Friday as...
Arab and Muslim former detainees who say they faced harsh jail conditions due to their faith and ethnicity following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks can pursue a lawsuit against former top U.S. law...
December 11, 2015, New York – Today, in a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a historic ruling by a three-judge...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Legal Worker Ian Head will lead an hour-long webinar training on how to file federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and the state and local...
Since 2009, appropriations bills passed by the U.S. Congress have required the funding of 34,000 immigration detention beds per day. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and...
Back in June, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed a stinging rebuke to the federal government and a significant victory to CCR and our clients in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case we brought over...
