Background : From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the historic settlement in the federal class action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California . The case was filed in 2012 on behalf of prisoners in solitary...
One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
Bobby James Moore was sentenced to death by the State of Texas in 1980, when he was 20 years old. He has spent three and a half decades on death row, and the last fifteen years in solitary...
15 years after torture at Abu Ghraib, a historic ruling in the fight for accountability Nearly 15 years after the horrific abuses at the Abu Ghraib "hard site" prison in Iraq came to light, a...
The nationwide movement to end solitary confinement is growing – even attracting the attention of a Supreme Court justice – and today it took a significant step forward. CCR and the State of...
Ruby-Beth Buitekant is a 2016 Ella Baker summer intern at CCR. Check out her recent interview with the American Bar Association Law Student podcast. I am wrapping up my summer as an Ella Baker summer...
Join us at the 2018 CCR Celebrates Changemakers! The Changemakers awards honor advocates, lawyers and artists who stand up for social justice – sharing CCR’s commitment to challenge oppressive...
Join us for a critical discussion on solitary confinement at Pelican Bay . Presented by the CCR, our panel will examine the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. criminal justice system, looking...
