The Legal Worker will provide administrative, programmatic, and paralegal assistance as part of case/project teams in the Legal Department. Legal Workers are supervised day-to-day by staff attorneys...
Updated: January 8, 2021
December 14, 2017...In a recent study on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Stanford University’s Mental Health Lab concluded that solitary confinement...
Jules Lobel, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is the lead attorney representing Pelican Bay prisoners in a lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement in California prisons...
Updated: July 17, 2013
January 4, 2021Join us on January 11 to mark 19 years since the opening of the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] Throughout the last two decades, hundreds of men have been released...
June 26, 2015A Guantanamo Bay prisoner, who has been on hunger strike for over eight years, has launched a legal push for his immediate release from the United States military prison because he now weighs around...
November 5, 2021...On this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” Khan’s lawyer J. Wells Dixon, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, joins Robert Scheer to discuss the implications of Khan’s...
January 3, 2018Wednesday, a St. Charles Parish judge ruled in favor of Sheriff Greg Champagne over a lawsuit filed alleging the sheriff did not completely fulfill a public records request. After hearing testimony...
The judge’s decision comes in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Project South, and the Southern Poverty Law Center
September 2015: Landmark settlement ends indeterminate long-term solitary in CA. This is the story of the prisoners who led the fight to make it happen.
Updated: September 1, 2015
September 1, 2015In a resolution that could have wide effects, California's prison system has agreed to change how it handles solitary confinement — and to review the cases of nearly 3,000 prisoners who are currently...
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