November 2009A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because...
November 2009A Judicial remedy is denied to Maher Arar, victim of the US extraordinary rendition program.
April 2009On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John Nirenberg, a Brattleboro man who walked from...
September 1, 2015The way thousands of California inmates tell it, there's prison, and then there's prison. Locked in windowless cells for as much as 23 hours each day, inmates held in solitary confinement have little...
October 29, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed a federal district court decision, which essentially ruled prisoners who were confined in Communication Management Units (CMUs) did not have their...
April 5, 2018...Al-Darbi is the only prisoner who’s pleaded guilty in the military commissions at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, located on illegally-occupied Cuban territory. In a statement, the Center for...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education, Rachel Meeropol , at the 2019 Practising Law Institute's Prison Law...
Updated: November 1, 2019
September 16, 2020...In the absence of photographs, comics and the graphic novel format have the power to make people and places come to life. “You’re seeing the faces of the people who are in the stories,” Mirk says...
February 17, 2021...“Governmental services providing one response to a group of people and not another is clearly a form of discrimination, and county governments transferring 911 calls to an agency that does not...
On Monday, February 22nd, the Center for Global Justice will be hosting a webinar in which Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren and Senior Staff Attorney...
Updated: February 18, 2021
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