George Ruiz, a seventy-two-year-old inmate in California, has spent the last thirty-one years in solitary confinement, most of it in Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been held in a windowless cell,...
The Supreme Court seems eager to hear a case on the constitutionality of a distinctively American form of punishment: prolonged solitary confinement. “Years on end of near total isolation exact a...
Please join CCR, Witness Against Torture, and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our montly vigil on October 5. Organizers, advocates, and attorneys will make connections...
On April 28, 2010, in the Restricted Housing Unit of Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution at Dallas, Carrington Keys heard his friend Isaac Sanchez scream. Like Sanchez, Keys had spent years...
On April 28, 2010, in the Restricted Housing Unit of Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution at Dallas, Carrington Keys heard his friend Isaac Sanchez scream. Like Sanchez, Keys had spent years...
The Supreme Court declined to take up a case from a convicted murderer Tuesday who argues that Virginia's practice requiring solitary confinement for death row inmates violates his rights under the...
Here at CCR, we often have the privilege of working closely with independent journalists to uncover civil and human rights abuses. From early in 2007, when CCR first began exploring “the green scare...
Last 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...
Today 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...
