October 13, 2015In a stunning legal decision issued today , the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Muslim-Americans who had been subjected to blanket mass-surveillance by the NYPD Intelligence Division have...
November 13, 2015The University of Illinois will spend over $2 million because of its handling of a social media situation that might have been avoidable. In July 2014, Steven Salaita, who was to begin a tenured $85,...
December 30, 2015... "The president knows that Guantanamo is wrong, legally and morally," says Wells Dixon, senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has represented clients at Gitmo since 2005. "...
January 14, 2016nited States officials said on Thursday that 10 lower-level Yemeni detainees had been transferred from the Guantánamo Bay prison to Oman . ... ... Mr. Ghazi has also attracted some attention because...
The landmark 2015 settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California will end long-term solitary for thousands of prisoners in California. Febe Baca tells the story of her husband, Darryl, who was...
Updated: January 26, 2016
April 16, 2016The Pentagon has sent nine men to Saudi Arabia from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, seeing through negotiations that began during the administration of President George W. Bush...
July 5, 2016Daniel McGowan was returning to his cell in the Sandstone, Minn., federal prison when he learned he was shipping out. At first he didn’t know where, or why, which is standard procedure for the U.S...
October 26, 2016Did you know that throwing a rock through the window of a Whole Foods could be punished as a federal crime of terrorism? An Assistant United States Attorney admitted as much last year, when defending...
October 24, 2016California has greatly reduced solitary confinement in its prisons and has nearly eliminated its long-term use under a year-old legal settlement, lawyers for the prisoners reported Monday The state...
January 18, 2017The Supreme Court -- or, rather, two-thirds of it -- will hear a case for the ages today. On the docket: a dispute spanning more than 15 years, in which Muslim non-citizens of Middle Eastern descent...
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