April 29, 2009, New York –The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of the men detained by the U.S. government at Guantánamo, praised Spanish judge Baltazar...
September 2008"Torture does not begin in some remote, dark, subterranean cell, where prisoners are hooded and interrogators are masked. Torture emerges from fear clouding vision and it begins on paper, with...
On June 12, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted written testimony before the Public Safety Committee of the California State Senate on June 12, 2012 for a hearing Hearing on A...
Updated: September 11, 2012
February 11, 2020Introduction by Laura Magnani, American Friends Service Committee What follows below is an update from the leadership of the 2011 and 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes against indefinite solitary...
Updated: December 18, 2010
July 2, 2015By 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...
October 28, 2021, Oakland, CA ‒ Men who spent a decade or longer in solitary confinement charged that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is violating a landmark...
July 13, 2020We're suing to end cruel and unconstitutional death-by-incarceration sentences [caption align="right"] [/caption] People in Pennsylvania serving death-by-incarceration sentences (commonly known as “...
June 25, 2015Not a single U.S. government official has been called to account in a federal court for the sadistic crimes described in the CIA Torture Report. Waterboarding, rape, sleep deprivation, the list goes...
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