"The memories of the Abu Ghraib detention center are imprinted in my imagination as a movie, playing every time I see images of a prison, or torture, or if I hear of violations of human rights...
Law likely unconstitutional, judge says, ruling on class action lawsuit brought by trans people in Georgia prisons September 4, 2025, Atlanta – A federal judge today preliminarily blocked a Georgia...
Response to lawsuit by Palestinians comes as United Nations marks 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention December 9, 2023, New York – After the U.S. government’s response late yesterday in the...
“At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.”—Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do...
April 23, 2014, Washington D.C. – For the first time, hundreds of documents detailing the Bureau of Prisons’ process for designating prisoners to controversial Communications Management...
VICTORY: Immigrant father and two-year-old son released from detention and reunited! The Center for Constitutional Rights celebrated an incredible victory last week after a federal judge ordered the...
CCR has long called for an end to the military commissions system at Guantánamo, a second-class system of justice designed to hide brutal torture committed by the U.S., and a proven failure,...
March 15, 2019, New York – In response to the Mosque shootings in New Zealand, the Center for Constitutional Rights made the following statement: We are mourning today with Muslim communities in...
...Ketanji Brown Jackson explained how the Supreme Court decided that even those embattled prisoners had rights. “Judge Jackson was one of many hundreds of lawyers…to challenge this remarkable...
By Ella Baker Summer Interns Ruhan Nagra and Thomas Power The opinions of internationally recognized torture experts will be considered in the Sixth Circuit appeal of 67-year-old Palestinian American...
