February 23, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the introduction in Congress of the Stop Outsourcing Security...
September 1, 2015California will release hundreds of inmates confined for years in solitary confinement into units where they will live with others, in a sweeping settlement announced Tuesday to reform the practice...
New York, NY – On May 6, 2010, Rhonda Copelon, a CUNY School of Law professor and human rights attorney with and Vice-President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who broke new...
Emergency Motion Says Ashley Diamond’s Allegations of Assault Prompted Retaliation by Prison Staff April 9, 2021, Atlanta – Today, Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman who is currently suing the...
February 27, 2013, New York – Today the Army’s records management division, responsible for responding to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, released 84 judicial orders...
June 17, 2015I’ve written at some length in the past about judicial hostility to damages suits brought by victims of allegedly unlawful post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. I may have to rethink some of that...
In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
Biden administration conceals role at “lily pad” sites, where Afghans face months in limbo, inhumane conditions January 14, 2025, New York – The U.S. government has enlisted at least 36 countries to...
Updated: December 7, 2012
September 7, 2020Prisoners held in solitary ask full Ninth Circuit for review Last week, men who sued the state of California for imprisoning them in solitary confinement for over a decade continued their fight. A...
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