Plea deals that result in life sentences for 9/11 defendants are the only path to justice – and the only way to close Guantánamo September 11, 2025, New York – On the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the...
September 1, 2015The nationwide movement to end solitary confinement is growing – even attracting the attention of a Supreme Court justice – and today it took a significant step forward. CCR and the State of...
On November 15, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA), Black Lives Matter (BLM) Phoenix Metro, Mijente, and Puente continue their fight against the corporate-led American Legislative...
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August 13, 2015The U.S. military said Thursday that it is committed to “a fair and equitable process” in the case of national security leaker Chelsea Manning and other prisoners accused of breaking rules at the...
September 1, 2015Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being kept in solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in state...
January 11, 2012, Washington, DC – Today, on the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first detained men at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center for Constitutional...
January 29, 2015, Chicago, IL — A professor who was fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign because of his tweets criticizing the Israeli...
June 20, 2016Lawyer, professor, and writer Jonathan Hafetz shares his memories of late CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner and the enduring mission of efforts to close Guantánamo, which is further explored in...
July 2, 2018With a conservative Supreme Court majority, it was no surprise the justices upheld Trump's Muslim Ban. But there was a silver lining: In a vote against the racist policy, Justice Breyer cited on page...
August 10, 2020Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...
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