A new Reuters exposé shows the Pentagon has thwarted the Obama administration’s efforts to close Guantánamo by imposing bureaucratic hurdles to delay
Updated: December 30, 2015
February 29, 2016At the end of Spotlight , a list of hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world in which major cases of clergy sexual violence have been uncovered fills up the screen. You can literally hear...
March 15, 2016Inmates challenging their confinement in special prison units where their communications are monitored non-stop will get one more chance to revive their case against the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
March 16, 2016During his 19-year tenure on the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia, Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland established a mixed record on legal issues surrounding the post-Sept. 11...
April 11, 2016State and European prison officials, academics, scientists, attorneys, released former inmates and others will gather in Pittsburgh this week to discuss prolonged solitary confinement in prison — as...
May 11, 2016, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights is sad to release the following statement on the occasion of the passing of the Center’s president emeritus Michael Ratner: From Attica...
The groundbreaking human rights attorney Michael Ratner has died at the age of 72. For over four decades, he defended, investigated and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world...
Updated: May 12, 2016
June 16, 2016A Saudi national accused of trying to take part in the September 11 attacks who has been repeatedly tortured gets a chance to plead his case in front of a Guantanamo parole-like board on Thursday...
On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:30 a.m., the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati will hear oral argument in Phillips v. Snyder from CCR co-counsel, the Sugar Law Center. Phillips v...
Updated: July 28, 2016
August 4, 2016Over two years ago, a federal judge swept aside multiple delay tactics by the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder and allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Michigan’s Emergency...
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