Today saw the long awaited release of a report by the CIA's Office of Inspector General (the agency's internal watchdog) investigating the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (...
November 14, 2007, New York, NY – Last night, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorneys and co-counsel submitted the final brief to the Supreme Court in the case that will determine whether...
STRANDED AT GUANTÁNAMO: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FOR GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS WHO CANNOT BE SAFELY REPATRIATED NEED FOR HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION 1. How...
Updated: January 11, 2010
The Supreme Court Decision Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in an historic decision in Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. United States that the detainees at...
Updated: July 21, 2010
In 2006 and 2008, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) created Communications Management Units (CMUs), prison units designed to isolate and segregate certain prisoners in the federal prison system...
Updated: October 14, 2021
May 11, 2016It is with a very heavy heart that we write to tell you of a great loss to our family. Today, we lost one of the great social justice warriors of our time, Michael Ratner. In July 2015, Michael fell...
In a decision cheered by human rights organizations and immigrant justice activists, the Supreme Court ruled in Benitez v. Mata (also known as Martinez v. Clark) on January 12, 2005 that the...
On February 9, 2005 in New York, The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) denounced the arrest of three community organizers by officers of the New York Police Department on the night of February...
Today, December 8, 2005, in Washington, D.C., the Center for Constitutional Rights condemned what it views as a campaign of harassment and political persecution of former members of the Black Panther...
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Amicus Brief urging the California court to investigate questions of the integrity of electronic voting in Riverside County and that claims by election...
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