Gitmo Prisoner Who Attempted Suicide is Among Appellants October 1, 2019, The Hague/New York – Yesterday, victims of U.S. torture appealed a ruling by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International...
Source: Outten & Golden LLP NEW YORK, April 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans have been rejected for jobs by the U.S. Census Bureau during the...
Earlier this year in June, Dr. Scott Warren walked away from the Tucson federal courthouse a free man. The DOJ had charged him with harboring, arguing that he deserved up to twenty years in prison...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is deeply dismayed at the Obama Administration’s claim that it can continue military attacks on Libya without Congressional approval as...
October 29, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ The military commission sentencing hearing of a man tortured and imprisoned by the U.S. for eighteen years concluded today, paving the way for his transfer...
In the six years since Ferguson, calls for accountability for the state-sanctioned murder of Black people have evolved to encompass demands to defund and abolish the prison-industrial complex (PIC)...
Today, September 7, 2017, CCR and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) during its 164th session in Mexico City...
Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
In Unprecedented Testimony, Guantánamo Prisoner Majid Khan Finally Tells His Story at Sentencing Hearing October 28, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ Today, a man who was disappeared and tortured at...
On November 8, 2013, I was finally released from Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (SHU). Pelican Bay prison is in the city of Crescent City, California. My name is Art N. Ramirez. At...
