October 20, 2015Last week, CCR reposted a new video by dozens of activists about Black-Palestinian solidarity, “ When I see them, I see us .” It draws attention to the parallels between the experiences of...
October 28, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed a district court ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive...
October 28, 2015Today we have filed an appeal to the D.C. Circuit in Aref v. Holder , marking the latest chapter in an eight-year challenge to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive “Communications Management Units...
October 29, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed a federal district court decision, which essentially ruled prisoners who were confined in Communication Management Units (CMUs) did not have their...
Rachel Meeropol, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, explains why the ‘ The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook ’ is important- stating prisons have an ‘incredible amount of...
Updated: November 4, 2015
November 5, 2015CCR’s long-standing challenge to the experimental prison units known as Communication Management Units , or “CMUs,” got an important boost this week with the filing of two separate friend-of-the-...
November 6, 2015Since 2009, appropriations bills passed by the U.S. Congress have required the funding of 34,000 immigration detention beds per day. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and...
Updated: November 11, 2015
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Legal Worker Ian Head will lead an hour-long webinar training on how to file federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and the state and local...
Updated: November 17, 2015
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will join other advocates and activists on a panel at the US Human Rights Network (USHRN)'s biannual national human rights conference Advancing Human Rights...
Updated: November 17, 2015
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