New report on world’s largest detention system shows policies designed to punish immigrants spread coronavirus and how system degrades and dehumanizes people February 3, 2022 — ICE detention...
Site Provides Historical Context and Resources Around Reckoning With 20 Years of Injustice September 2, 2021, New York – Ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Join Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC)’s 2018 Advocacy Day in Albany on March 13 to demand that New York State Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature end the torture of...
Updated: January 29, 2018
April 12, 2022Four people are challenging Pennsylvania's lifetime ban on parole for "felony murder."
March 14, 2013, Oakland – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal judge to reject California’s attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging...
Al Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services challenged corporate impunity for torture and other war crimes at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq.
Updated: September 8, 2021
On September 15, 2004 California Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney rejected an attempt by Unocal Corp. to dismiss a lawsuit charging it is responsible for human rights abuses committed by the...
January 30, 2014, New York – Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking immediate release of...
Join the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site on Monday , May 13, 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. ET for a free, virtual program featuring Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren...
Updated: May 1, 2024
October 2013David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center . When Herman Wallace died Oct. 4 at age 71, he had been a free man for about 2½ days. Before that, he spent 41 years in solitary...
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