July 1, 2022...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and Paris-based human rights federation FIDH told the court’s chief prosecutor that Hammouri’s case is a “stark example and a warning of new...
President-elect Biden has been a supporter of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison since he was a senator. The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes his support as president, and calls on him to...
Updated: January 18, 2022
January 25, 2021Women in sanctuary file lawsuit against ICE to challenge retaliatory and excessive civil fines Four women living in sanctuary, along with Austin Sanctuary Network (ASN) and Free Migration Project (...
February 8, 2021, Harrisburg, PA – Death By Incarceration, also known as life without the possibility of parole, is a term coined by a movement of advocates working to end the practice, including...
A lesser-known weapon in the “War on Terror” inflicts suffering on people in prison and denies them due process October 18, 2021, New York ‒ Today, a man who spent nearly five years in a so-called...
70 Percent of People Serving These Sentences for Felony Murder are Black April 13, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA ‒ Today, a lawsuit brought by people serving Death-By-Incarceration sentences, commonly known...
Declarations included from former Biden State Department official Josh Paul and from plaintiffs December 23, 2023, New York – Hours after the U.S. abstained on a United Nations Security Council...
Trump Administration Makes False Claim Khalil Was Poised to Flee, Despite Video Showing Him Cooperating April 24, 2025, Newark, NJ – In filings in the case of Mahmoud Khalil submitted to immigration...
April 18, 2022The first case of its kind in the country, it seeks an end to the ban on parole for felony murder
March 5, 2018Last week, we went to court with ArchCity Defenders and co-counsel to challenge St. Louis County’s unconstitutional "Wanted" system to certify a plaintiff class of thousands of people who’ve been...
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