In Alabama’s complex history, the remnants of slavery in the state’s prison system cast a long shadow. Following the legal abolition of slavery in Alabama, through the ratification of the Thirteenth...
Updated: February 26, 2025
The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) held the petitioner, Mr. Ragbir, removable from the United States by applying a narrow evidentiary standard that the Supreme Court later rejected...
Updated: August 5, 2011
Four Venezuelan migrants filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on September 13, 2024, challenging the legality of their indefinite detention at the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral...
Updated: February 25, 2025
February 23, 2016U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement Tuesday that he would push forward plans to shut down the controversial U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was welcomed by human...
Edicson David Quintero Chacón filed an amended petition for writ of habeas corpus on April 16, 2025, challenging the legality of his detention at the infamous Terrorism Confinement Center (“CECOT”)...
Updated: April 16, 2025
June 8, 2017In terms of a civil lawsuit, when is a win not a win? Possibly when the judge, though ruling in your favor, takes pains to describe your views as "ludicrious," "abhorrent," "pathetic" and examples of...
August 12, 2022... He’s not only a phenomenal healing — in terms of healing modality, in terms of treating addiction with acupuncture. He’s also, like I said, a human rights activist. There are organizations such...
May 31, 2023...Mamdani told The Electronic Intifada that representatives of human rights groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace, the Adalah Justice Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the US...
April 5, 2017Afghan human rights groups urged the International Criminal Court on Wednesday to speed up a war crimes probe in their country, as they prepared to meet the tribunal's chief prosecutor. ... ... The...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will participate in a half-day symposium organized by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. He will join Debi Cornwall...
Updated: August 24, 2017
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