“'There are three kinds of lies,' Mark Twain was fond of saying: 'Lies, damned lies and statistics.' Selectively presented statistics can be used as much to distort or obscure as they can to...
The way thousands of California inmates tell it, there's prison, and then there's prison. Locked in windowless cells for as much as 23 hours each day, inmates held in solitary confinement have little...
Amanda Alexander, Michigan, is the f ounding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center, a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School , and a nationally recognized scholar of...
... “The more I cooperated, the more I was tortured,” said Mr. Khan, shown in a 2018 photo, who is now cooperating with the government. Credit Center for Constitutional Rights In court on Thursday,...
Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Warns Against Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Laws August 7, 2019, New York – Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following...
CCR is proud to join the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program to mark a decade of the U.S.-led war in Iraq with speakers from the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and Iraq...
We continue our fight to protect asylum rights In a decision late Monday , a federal district court rejected the Trump administration's second attempt to dismiss our lawsuit, Al Otro Lado v. Nielsen...
To commemorate Disability Pride Month, the Center for Constitutional Rights is honored to sponsor this important panel discussion and teach-in by our partners at Project LETS — a...
Ashley Diamond Home at Last August 9, 2022 – Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman who has twice sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for refusing to protect her from sexual assault...
