November 23, 2016To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
Please join CCR in Washington DC on Thursday, October 15th at 10:00 am for a motion hearing in Ba Odah v. Obama , a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been...
Updated: October 2, 2015
August 25, 2015President Barack Obama’s administration would rather subject a gravely ill Guantanamo Bay prisoner to continuous abusive force-feedings, which amount to torture, than support his release from the...
September 1, 2015There are people in California’s prison system who have been held in near-complete isolation for more than a decade. Today the state has announced a settlement with a group of these prisoners to move...
Please join CCR, Witness Against Torture (WAT), the Peace Poets , and allies for a book launch and performance on the eve of the 16th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. There...
Updated: November 29, 2017
On November 9, 2021, on behalf of The Descendants Project, an organization founded to advocate for descendants of people once enslaved in Louisiana’s river parishes, the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: April 2, 2025
November 29, 2018Testimony on day three of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline eminent domain trial wrapped Thursday morning after Judge Keith Comeaux heard testimony from landowner Katherine Aaslestad as she was cross-...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to collaborate with the Depaul Art Museum (DPAM) and the Tea Project on Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guant...
Updated: January 5, 2022
Black August 2021: Fighting for Freedom from the Inside Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial complex, who, with their vision...
Updated: August 26, 2021
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
Updated: March 28, 2017
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