January 20, 2016Bobby James Moore was sentenced to death by the State of Texas in 1980, when he was 20 years old. He has spent three and a half decades on death row, and the last fifteen years in solitary...
Following the October 19 performance of The Siege , CCR Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will participate in a conversation, “ Staging Conflict, Making Peace ” with Cynthia Schneider (Georgetown),...
Updated: October 13, 2017
Following the October 21 performance of The Siege , CCR Staff Attorney Diala Shamas will participate in a conversation, “ Practice Resistance ” with Sarah Schulman (CUNY), David Zellnik (Break the...
Updated: October 13, 2017
Highest Court Rejects Private Prisons’ Petition to Limit Release of Government Documents October 10, 2017, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court denied a petition by private prison corporations...
Court Hears Emergency Motion From Ashley Diamond May 12, 2021, Atlanta – Today, a federal judge heard an emergency motion in a case charging the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) with violating...
With the release of the Senate CIA Torture Report earlier this month, the torture debate is going strong. Despite President Obama’s admission that “we crossed a line” and “...
Updated: January 2, 2015
October 23, 2017President Trump told us during the campaign that he was in favor of torture because “it works.“ The Center for Constitutional Rights recently won a significant round in a case against a private...
Window Dressing the Muslim Ban , authored by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School, documents the impact of the Muslim Ban on Yemeni nationals applying...
Updated: June 26, 2018
May 16, 2014, New York – Today, in response to new revelations published in Harper’s Magazine regarding the deaths of three Guantánamo prisoners in June 2006, the Center for...
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