September 2, 2015If mass incarceration is one of modern America’s deepest pathologies, solitary confinement is the concentrated version of it: far too many people locked up for far too long for no good reason, and at...
October 15, 2018... The Center for Constitutional Rights took up Mr C’s case and he was freed from detention on Wednesday. On Thursday, he filed paperwork to be reunited with his son. “Friday, the child should’ve...
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January 6, 2021... The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was involved in producing a report in 2017 called “The Darkest Corner.” It was referenced by the judge and outlined the conditions prisoners face at ADX...
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...
Updated: June 11, 2019
February 2009WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pentagon documents released by rights groups Thursday detailed the agency's involvement in "war on terror" excesses, fueling debate over possible probes into the...
Advocates Warn Outbreak Is Imminent Inside Prison May 27, 2020, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, several civil rights and racial justice groups filed a federal lawsuit calling for the release of people...
August 21, 2020...“We are elated that the families who lost loved ones in the 2003 massacres have won this important victory,” said Beth Stephens, a cooperating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights...
The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become. What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did. Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities...
Updated: January 11, 2010
October 11, 2016Today, nearly 14 years after the case began, the Supreme Court granted John Ashcroft and other Bush-era government officials’ requests to review CCR’s class action challenge to the post-9/11...
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