October 26, 2022...She reentered the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections in October of that year, department records show. Despite her landmark legal case against Georgia prison officials, she faced the...
November 30, 2023...Lower courts have struck down “metering” in the past, but the present case being argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals could set an important future precedent as the Biden...
October 2009Long Island families represented by the CCR are seeking to prevail in a lawsuit that could result in the state returning to them tens of millions of dollars for what families say are exorbitant phone...
November 2011Local law enforcement agencies are not required to hold undocumented immigrants at the request of the federal government, according to internal Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by a...
November 2011"George Ruiz is 72 years old. For the past 30 years, he has spent every day alone — locked in a cramped, windowless cell inside the Security Housing Unit (SHU) first at California’s...
May 1, 2019...They document that at some point from 2008–2013, of the “10.1% of Michigan residents under emergency management, 70.7% were African American and 7.3% were Hispanic or Latino,” noting that while...
Join the Death by Incarceration is Torture coalition, of which Center for Constitutional Rights is part, for a virtual townhall on Thursday, January 18, at 7 p.m. EST to learn how people impacted by...
Updated: January 16, 2024
February 26, 2024...In 2020, at age 67, she became the lead plaintiff in a six-person lawsuit filed by the Abolitionist Law Center, the Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights arguing that...
Today marks the 1,000th day WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent in political asylum inside Ecuador’s London embassy. For the first time, Swedish prosecutors have opened the door to Assange’s...
Updated: May 11, 2016
November 21, 2016...For me, this journey to Gitmo had started with a simple request. My law firm was asked by the Center for Constitutional Rights to represent a single detainee in Guantanamo Bay in his habeas...
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