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...
Updated: October 23, 2008
Vanessa, Lynn, Corin , and Jemma Redgrave make a very special appearance to read Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak , a collection of poems written by detainees held in the US detention...
Updated: November 28, 2007
December 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...
August 26, 2015, New York – In response to the United Kingdom’s diplomatic protest of Ecuador’s continued provision of asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
A federal class action lawsuit on behalf of the Vulcan Society and individual firefighters and firefighter applicants charging the New York City Fire Department with racially discriminatory hiring...
Updated: June 15, 2016
The Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce the launch of a monthly film series that harnesses the power of film to educate, inspire, and tell the...
Updated: July 7, 2014
February 7, 2011, Geneva and New York – Today, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints, with more than 2,500-pages of supporting material, in Geneva against former U.S...
January 27, 2016A federal judge gave final approval to the settlement of a class action filed on behalf of hundreds of prisoners held in solitary confinement, sometimes for years, at California's Pelican Bay prison...
June 13, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), filed an amicus brief on behalf of human rights organizations in the United States Supreme Court in the case...
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