April 2014Former US Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was reportedly punished with solitary confinement for giving legal advice to his fellow inmates, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. An anonymous source...
February 5, 2018, New York –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on...
October 22, 2018VICTORY: Immigrant father and two-year-old son released from detention and reunited! The Center for Constitutional Rights celebrated an incredible victory last week after a federal judge ordered the...
February 2, 2017Today marks the five-year anniversary since NYPD officer Richard Haste killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham in his Bronx home. The five-day departmental trial of Officer Haste wrapped up last week, and...
March 10, 2013, New York - The Center for Constitutional Rights and The American Civil Liberties Union issued the following statement in response to The New York Times article today detailing the U.S...
Men Continue to Be Held Alone in Cells 23 Hours a Day May 12, 2020, San Francisco – Today, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, urging...
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: February 18, 2025
November 21, 2017California prisons no longer hold large numbers of prisoners for a decade or more in solitary confinement, but advocates said Monday that prison officials have failed to provide promised mental...
September 1, 2015Hundreds of prisoners housed in the California penitentiary system will be released from solitary confinement, where dozens of inmates have been detained for more than a decade, under the details of...
September 1, 2015Thousands of California prison inmates who have been in solitary confinement – some for more than 30 years – will be released into the general prison population under a legal settlement announced...
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