September 7, 2015Prison administrators and inmate advocates agreed last week on one facet of the debate on solitary confinement: Prisons need to be more careful about putting people in “the hole.” On Tuesday,...
Aya Saed is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in challenging unlawful detentions, counterterrorism practices, the criminalization of dissent, and...
Mimi Clara is a Senior Donor Relations Officer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works closely with the Director of Development to support the department’s major gifts fundraising efforts...
Site Plan Hijinks Vitiate Council’s Consent A copy of the letter is available here . May 12, 2021, St. James, LA – Lawyers for RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sent a letter to...
Zafar Arslan (f/k/a Adel Noori) It was against this backdrop that Mr. Arslan made the difficult decision to leave his homeland to escape the severe religious and political persecution he had endured...
Updated: January 14, 2010
Join CCR on February 3rd from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 pm to remember and honor David Kato at a candlelight vigil organized by the International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission . The vigil will take...
Updated: February 2, 2011
November 14, 2023...The Center for Constitutional Rights is requesting a federal court order to stop the U.S. government's support of Israel's siege on Gaza, the group said in a statement today. Biden, Secretary of...
Originally filed without legal assistance by Pelican Bay prisoners, CCR joined Ashker v. Brown in 2012, and turned it into a class action challenging prolonged solitary confinement as a violation of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
September 1, 2015Marking a significant victory in the struggle to end solitary confinement in the United States, a landmark legal settlement filed in federal court on Tuesday effectively ends the practice of...
May 1, 2019...They document that at some point from 2008–2013, of the “10.1% of Michigan residents under emergency management, 70.7% were African American and 7.3% were Hispanic or Latino,” noting that while...
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