November 8, 2019... Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim racism, and the parallel US-driven militarism in Muslim countries across the globe, have created a political and legal framework to alienate and stigmatize Muslim...
October 15, 2018Immigrant father who challenged his detention and a five-month incommunicado separation from his infant son released on bond A Honduran immigrant, Mr. C., who was held in a New York detention center...
November 2013Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
The U.S. Drug War has fueled mass incarceration and discriminatory policing practices in the U.S. as well as violence and militarization throughout Latin America. This panel will bring together...
Updated: February 20, 2014
August 5, 2014, Washington, D.C. – Last night, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review its case challenging the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act...
September 2, 2015An organization representing prison and jail administrators said Wednesday that the policy of keeping tens of thousands of inmates in solitary confinement was a serious problem that needed to be...
March 26, 2008, Boston, MA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other Guantánamo attorneys testified during a Congressional field briefing on Guantánamo’s refugees for the House...
This post was written by Max Rameau of Take Back the Land, originally posted at http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com/ Monday, March 01, 2010 Take Back the Land is going to South Africa. As a part of...
September 1, 2015California has agreed to an overhaul of its use of solitary confinement in its prisons, including strict limits on the prolonged isolation of inmates, as part of a landmark legal settlement filed in...
May 11, 2012, Richmond, VA – Today, a federal appellate court dismissed the appeals of two private military contractors who had argued they were immune from litigation when they engage in...
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