Publications and Reports

Groups Demand Information on NYPD Crowd Control Policies and Surveillance of Occupy Wall Street Protests

April 19, 2012

April 19, 2012, New York – Today, Occupy Wall Street protesters and civil and human rights attorneys filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request demanding that the NYPD disclose all...

Women's History Month 2022

This Women’s History Month we reaffirm our duty to actively support those who daily fight to dismantle patriarchal violence : the interconnected systems of dominance that marginalize and limit the...

Updated: March 1, 2022

How Solitary Confinement Became Hardwired In U.S. Prisons

August 23, 2015

First in a three-part report on solitary confinement use in U.S. prisons. Listen to the story or see the original piece here .

Eight Soldiers Plan to Sue Over Army Tours of Duty

December 2005

CCR provides legal support for 8 U.S. soldiers prevented from returning home to challenge the army's stop-loss policy.

U.S. Claims Maher Arar Still Considered a Threat to U.S.

December 2006

U.S. ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins, says that Maher Arar is still considered a terrorist suspect and will remain on a security watchlist.

'Supermax' Transfers Must Get Hearing

June 2004

6th U.S. circuit court of appeals rules that prison inmates cannot be transferred to a super-maximum prison without a hearing.

Guantanamo Detainee: I Don't Want to Go Home

July 2009

A Guantanamo detainee is so fearful of returning to his homeland that he is fighting U.S. plans to send him there.

Michael Brown and Racial Injustice

December 23, 2014

Christiane Amanpour talks to Vince Warren from the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin about justice in the U.S.

Updated: May 30, 2015

Libyan Detainee, Fearing Torture, Fights Transfer Home

June 2007

Libyan Guantanamo detainee cleared for release or transfer, fears he will be tortured if U.S. officials transfer him to Libya.

Michael Ratner on Democracy Now: Snowden to face torture or death?

July 30, 2013

Updated: July 30, 2013

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