Immigrant rights activists on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama’s administration for signing contracts with private companies that guarantee a minimum number of daily detainees at certain...
A scathing watchdog report by the Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights adds fuel to the growing criticism against exorbitant taxpayer funding for private prison...
Attorneys for WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and other staff members of the media organization have condemned the United Kingdom’s diplomatic protest against Ecuador for continuing to...
In January, several days after heavily armed terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper in Paris, top officials with the New York Police Department held a drill to test the city’s...
In January, several days after heavily armed terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper in Paris, top officials with the New York Police Department held a drill to test the city’s...
More than 13 years after innocent Muslims faced prison abuses, "it is time to move the case forward" against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and others, two Second Circuit judges said Friday as...
Leading human rights groups have come out against President Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, saying it would simply shift the problem of indefinite detention to U.S. soil...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) on Monday, March 14th at 6:30 pm at Impact Hub in Washington, DC for an intimate...
“The U.S. government’s estimate of civilian casualties is misleading at best and, at worst, a distortion of the reality on the ground,” said Omar Shakir, a legal expert who has extensively studied...
On November 9, under a grey sky with light rain, I drove to federal court in Springfield, MA, to hear summary arguments in Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) vs. Scott Lively , a civil lawsuit in which...
