The Center for Constitutional Rights has been at the forefront of the legal battle against indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo since the prison’s opening, representing dozens of currently...
Updated: January 9, 2022
August 7, 2018Two civil rights groups are suing the NYPD for blocking requests for documents showing how the department enters New Yorkers into its gang database. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for...
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...
The Technology Director (TD) will lead and develop the Center for Constitutional Rights’ technology to advance our mission and align with our long-term strategic goals. The TD will lead the...
Updated: November 20, 2025
Evidence of the criminal activities of the Bush administration is exceedingly well documented. It is apparent in Bush administration memos, FOIA documents, congressional hearings, court documents,...
Updated: July 23, 2010
September 1, 2015Marking a significant victory in the struggle to end solitary confinement in the United States, a landmark legal settlement filed in federal court on Tuesday effectively ends the practice of...
September 2, 2016It seems like only yesterday I was preparing for a news conference to give a statement on behalf of California Families Against Solitary Confinement announcing a landmark settlement in the case...
Greenfield Louisiana relying on illegal rezoning ordinance to try to build massive grain terminal on land in historic Black community May 19, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – An...
Actions on U.S. torture brought in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 13, 2019
June 14, 2017, New York — Immigrant rights organizations, Center for Constitutional Rights, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), and...
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