August 18, 2016After years of documented human rights abuses by the private prison industry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is finally ending its use of privately-run, for-profit prisons, the Washington Post...
January 18, 2017The federal government’s frantic response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sparked renewed debate Wednesday at the Supreme Court, as justices considered whether top officials in the George W. Bush...
January 22, 2017For a small group of foreign detainees locked in the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Donald Trump's presidency means a narrowly missed chance for freedom. The five men — an Algerian, a...
Is the Trump administration attempting to erase history? On Friday, congressional officials confirmed the administration has begun returning to Congress copies of the Senate’s explosive 2014 report...
Updated: June 5, 2017
March 13, 2018...Human rights advocates, while never enamored with Mr. Tillerson, expressed alarm at Mr. Pompeo’s elevation. They were even more alarmed that Mr. Pompeo’s deputy at the C.I.A., Gina Haspel , had...
November 9, 2018Leading civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to end Donald Trump’s ban on people seeking asylum at the US border with Mexico because it violates US law. Starting on...
November 11, 2018...The Trump administration has instead called on asylum seekers to enter the United States through legal ports of entry. Angelo Guisado, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and...
June 13, 2019...In 2018, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of 11 individuals after Trump proclaimed that he would not allow the release of any captives from Guantanamo. “The...
Fear grips immigrant communities threatened by Trump’s ‘public charge’ proposal “If you’re not wealthy, you’re not welcome.” Under the Trump administration’s proposed “public charge” rule, many green...
Updated: November 1, 2019
January 16, 2020... Solitary Watch reported that in 2011 “nearly all of the 1,100 men in the [segregation unit] at Pelican Bay State Prison had been in solitary for five years or more,” some for as many as twenty...
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