Everything can be used / except what is wasteful / (you will need / to remember this when you are accused of destruction). Audre Lorde, 1981, “ The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism ”...
Updated: January 31, 2022
"The memories of the Abu Ghraib detention center are imprinted in my imagination as a movie, playing every time I see images of a prison, or torture, or if I hear of violations of human rights...
Updated: April 10, 2024
Recent years have seen our community and movement partners on the frontlines wracked by COVID-19, ongoing systemic anti-Black racism, accelerating climate disasters and growing authoritarian...
Updated: November 20, 2024
On December 8, 2015, CCR Legal Worker Ian Head testified on behalf of the Center before the New York State Assembly on the use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement officials. Testimony of the...
Updated: December 14, 2015
President-elect Biden has been a supporter of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison since he was a senator. The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes his support as president, and calls on him to...
Updated: January 18, 2022
Ashley Diamond is a Black, transgender woman and social justice and prisoners' rights activist whose landmark victory against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) in 2016 made national...
Updated: January 19, 2023
Palestinians Will E nd Israel’s Genocide and Reshape the World The U.S. government is providing unconditional and absolute diplomatic, financial, and military support for the Israeli government’s...
Updated: July 9, 2025
Introduction The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and despite the protections of our Constitution, many endure cruel and unusual punishment. In addition to...
Updated: June 18, 2010
Legal Glossary Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) , also known as Alien Tort Statute (ATS) – The Alien Tort Claims Act is a federal statute from 1789 that allows foreign victims of international...
Updated: February 19, 2010
On April 13, 2018, CCR joined Palestine Legal, Jewish Voice for Peace, and eleven other organizations in sending a letter to 280 universities asking officials to take action to protect free speech in...
Updated: April 20, 2018
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