January 14, 2022As a lawyer who has represented Guantánamo detaine es since the inception of the prison 20 years ago, I sometimes get asked, “What about these cases could you possibly still be litigating in 2022?”...
January 14, 2022...The new courtroom is directly contradictory to Biden’s stated objective to close Guantánamo Bay, and squaring that circle won’t be easy moving forward, said Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at...
July 20, 2023...Monitoring has revealed ongoing concerns around compliance, said CJ Sandley, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. The settlement agreement created units known as Restricted...
September 8, 2023...[P]eople ask me about last year’s water crisis. What they mostly want to know is if the failing infrastructure that left more than 150,000 people without water for weeks is fixed yet...
November 30, 2023...Baher Azmy, legal director of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing 13 asylum seekers allegedly harmed by the government's metering policy, said the "asylum...
Since at least 1998, U.S. immigration authorities have used dental radiographs in their process for determining the age of migrants even though the technique has been widely discredited. Further,...
Updated: November 15, 2024
Scott Brown's column repeated "facts" about the Guantanamo detainees that are not at all certain ("9/11 justice delayed," March 23).
January 2015"P resident Barack Obama has made it a priority for his last two years in office to shrink the prisoner population at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp so much that it would become an economic burden...
June 12, 2015Minimum occupancy quotas at immigrant detention facilities nationwide benefit for-profit prison operators by guaranteeing the government pays for thousands of detainees, regardless of whether those...
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