January 11, 2024, marks 22 years since the Guantánamo Bay prison has been open. Thirty Muslim men remain detained, including 16 who have been cleared for release. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: December 26, 2023
October 8, 2021..."We may never be able to fully measure the magnitude and scale of the harm done by Formosa around the world—both in terms of the damage it has wrought to the environment as well as basic human...
March 2007The New York State Court of appeals will allow a lawsuit filed by CCR to proceed, which challenges the constitutionality of the NYSDOCS prison telephone contract.
January 2007Governor Eliot Spitzer says excessive telephone charges paid by the families of state inmates will be reduced by April to the cost of regular calls.
April 2010Four more prisoners have been moved to secretive prison units known as Communication Management Units, or CMUs, Democracy Now! reports. CMUs are the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Center for...
November 2011Protesters accuse New York police of inciting violence by disobeying restraining order preventing further evictions.
Surveillance on U.S. citizens, extraordinary renditions and torture in U.S. detention facilities ... For the last decade, litigators have faced serious hurdles to challenging these practices in U.S...
Updated: March 17, 2010
June 21, 2015It has been nearly 14 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, but a lawsuit on behalf of Muslims rounded up in the aftermath has barely moved forward as lawyers try to show how frightening it was for...
November 20, 2017Two progressive organizations that have often shared a path during their past half-centuries of existence — one a social activist coalition, the other a legal advocacy group that often defends such...
For the second time this month, a Guatemalan child has died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Eight-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo died in New Mexico on Christmas Eve, after being...
Updated: January 8, 2019
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