On Monday, October 18, 2021, join the Center for Constitutional Rights for an appellate argument in the D.C. Court of Appeals in the case Aref v. Garland . This case was filed in the U.S...
Updated: October 6, 2021
Case Highlights Disparity in Police Treatment of Racial Justice Protesters and White Supremacists January 14, 2021, New York – In response to today’s announcement that New York Attorney General...
February 6, 2024, New York and Birmingham, Alabama – In support of the Free Alabama Movement (FAM) and incarcerated people in Alabama’s mass prison strike today, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Evidence of the criminal activities of the Bush administration is exceedingly well documented. It is apparent in Bush administration memos, FOIA documents, congressional hearings, court documents,...
Updated: July 23, 2010
On July 11, 2017, Defending Rights & Dissent, CCR, the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Massachusetts legislators opposing S.1689 and...
Updated: February 21, 2018
June 23, 2015At last count, there were an estimated 80,000 prisoners in isolation across the United States. ... There are more than 1,000 prisoners in isolation in Pelican Bay alone. For 25 years, until a 2011...
Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests serves as the first comprehensive guide and organizing resource to fight back against the Trump administration’s efforts to criminalize communities and...
Updated: October 28, 2020
February 9, 2009, New York – In response to the position Obama’s Justice Department took today in a key rendition case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Mohamed et al v...
October 13, 2017Oct 14, 2017 marks the 2 year anniversary of the approval of the Ashker settlement. We celebrate our victory in the Ashker case, in which virtually all of the over 1600 prisoners then languishing in...
February 18, 2009, Washington, DC – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a statement today in response to the court of appeals reversal of D.C. District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina...
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