February 10, 2009, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, attorneys for torture victims abused in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq asked the federal Court of Appeals for the District 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 31, 2007, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel issued a statement today in response to the news that the State Department had promised the employees of...
January 4, 2016Law360, Washington (January 4, 2016, 9:30 PM ET) -- A Second Circuit panel on Monday blocked a suit, accusing high-level Bush administration officials of contributing to the abuse of immigrants...
Conditions at immigration detention centers are often atrocious, but Black immigrants face unique abuse solely because of their race. Reports from several detention centers in the South have...
Updated: November 15, 2021
October 5, 2023...So far, the only lawsuits able to advance have targeted military contractors. Those cases, too, face considerable obstacles. One such case, Al Shimari et al. v. CACI , has been slowly making its...
August 17, 2012, New York – In response today’s ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and...
June 12, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and co-counsel issued the statement below responding to published accounts that the United States Department of...
Alexis Agathocleous is a Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on issues of mass incarceration, criminal justice, LGBTQ discrimination, gender justice,...
On Tuesday, September 1st we will be in court representing our Arizona partners, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Phoenix Metro, Mijente Support Committee, Puente Human Rights Movement, and the Arizona...
Updated: August 31, 2020
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