Ashley Diamond is a Black, transgender woman and social justice and prisoners' rights activist whose landmark victory against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) in 2016 made national...
Updated: January 19, 2023
Back to the film Thanksgiving, 2014 To begin, please forgive me for not saying the right things or making the right points. There are different cultures between us and many different experiences. It...
Updated: January 14, 2016
The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing on August 3rd 2009, of a core member the CCR family, Marilyn Clement. A lifelong social-justice activist who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr...
Updated: December 13, 2010
The Gregory H. Finger Racial Justice Fellowship was launched in May 2010 in honor of former CCR Executive Director, long-serving Board member, and former Board Chair Greg Finger. The Fellowship will...
Updated: February 11, 2011
Artwork by Shereen Masoud-Jointe "Solitary confinement has destroyed me...It was like a huge mountain that was on top of me. And the pressure on me was so high it squeezed tears out of my eyes...I...
Updated: April 4, 2022
Anti-Palestinian at the Core: The Origins and Growing Dangers of U.S. Antiterrorism Law , a white paper published by Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights, shows how core features...
Updated: February 21, 2024
Despite the health professions’ universally recognized duty to do no harm, doctors and psychologists have played a key role in the U.S. government’s policy of torture in its overseas prisons. They...
Updated: August 13, 2015
Hussain Saleh is a life-long Brooklynite and U.S. citizen with roots in the United States dating back multiple generations. His parents and siblings also reside in New York, forming a tight-knit...
Updated: April 10, 2019
Charles Watts is a 51-year-old Black man on whose behalf the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for “compassionate release” in federal court on November 9, 2021.
Updated: December 2, 2022
"It has become our destiny now to die without being guilty of any wrongdoing, knowing that even death, which could relieve us from this injustice and this suffering, is unreachable to us. Here we are...
Updated: October 26, 2023
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