CCR has a long history of challenging overbroad and warrantless government surveillance, something that has ballooned since 9/11. Last week, we filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant...
December 13, 2007, New York – The House of Representatives this evening voted to outlaw waterboarding and other forms of torture not permitted in the Army Field Manual (AFM). The latest version of...
Jennifer Hobbs is a lawyer and activist. Jen has been a social justice advocate and activist for over twenty years and, particularly, she is a long-term Palestinian solidarity activist having been...
The Advocacy Program Manager (APM) will advance the mission of the Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Team through the development of dynamic advocacy campaigns, political engagement...
March 31, 2011 - In 1976, 17-year-old Joelito Filártiga was abducted and later tortured to death by Americo Norberto Peña-Irala, the inspector general in the Department of Investigation...
Hundreds denied due process and held in abusive conditions as administration plans to send thousands more to infamous prison site July 29, 2025, New York – Civil rights groups today filed a Freedom...
February 17, 2012, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) strongly condemn Pope Benedict’s appointment of...
Thousands of California inmates who have spent years in solitary confinement will move back into the general prison population as part of a lawsuit settlement with the state. The settlement,...
Men rounded up in post-9/11 sweeps push suit against warden for physical, verbal, religious abuse In a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
September 17, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA – Today, United States District Judge Gary L. Lancaster ruled today on a suit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil...
