September 10, 2015George Ruiz, a seventy-two-year-old inmate in California, has spent the last thirty-one years in solitary confinement, most of it in Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been held in a windowless cell,...
January 25, 2019...The Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit that has filed lawsuits against previous efforts by Trump to restrict migrants from seeking asylum, called the new policy “inhumane and unlawful...
Inhumane conditions, inadequate medical care, due process violations, and retaliation rampant at the facility September 16, 2024, Albuquerque, New Mexico — Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the...
In February of 2000 CCR filed Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America , a nationwide class action lawsuit, seeking to enjoin, declare illegal, and recoup damages resulting from conspiracies...
Updated: July 6, 2009
Since August 8, 2005, detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp have been engaging in a life-threatening hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention without legal process and the inhumane...
Excessive and Retaliatory Fines Target Sanctuary Seekers and Activists September 20, 2019, New York, NY – Austin Sanctuary Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Free Migration Project, and...
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
Khan Tumani, et al., v. Obama, el al ., was a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Abdul Nasser Khan Tumani and Muhammed Khan Tumani, a father and son from Syria who were unlawfully detained in...
Updated: August 30, 2021
October 2, 2017Ten years ago, John Mearsheimer and I published a controversial article and subsequent book examining the impact of the “Israel Lobby” — that is, a loose coalition of pro-Israel individuals and...
The case was filed on behalf of three Haitian women who were brutally tortured by FRAPH. Two of the three plaintiffs were gang-raped in front of their families. A third was attacked by two FRAPH...
Updated: December 15, 2009
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