On May 4, 2016, CCR bestowed the Founders Award on Jules Lobel, our passionate cooperating attorney, board member since 1986, and current board president. Jules is the Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed...
Case Scheduled Inauguration Week, Newly Urgent in Face of Trump Presidency December 19, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme...
To 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...
“Friends of the Court” Urge Judicial Review for Post-9/11 Abuses December 28, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Late yesterday, in the last case to be heard by the Supreme Court under President Obama, civil...
As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
Fifteen years ago, after the Sept. 11 attacks, I was swept up with lots of other Muslim, Arab and South Asian men, held in immigration detention for months in isolation, beaten and harassed. I later...
To 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...
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and of Association had some strong words for the U.S. Congress during his testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission last Tuesday. Speaking...
“Are we going to pretend they’re less than men and walk away?” This beautiful line from Peace Poet Luke Nephew’s piece, “ There is a Man Under the Hood ,” anchors Witness Against Torture’s new...
Solitary confinement has no boundaries and is an infinite pit of corruption, lies, sadistic behaviour, pain, loneliness and self destruction. It is a blessing for someone like CCR to give you a voice...
