Support comes from victims, corrections officials, prosecutors, and Governor Shapiro April 29, 2024, Harrisburg, PA – A 36-year-old Black man serving life without parole (LWOP) for felony murder is...
Incarcerated individuals throughout Alabama’s prison system are forced into involuntary servitude. Six incarcerated workers, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights through its Southern...
Updated: November 22, 2024
On International Workers’ Day, suit challenges constitutionality of government actions to punish resistance to forced labor among majority-Black prison population May 1, 2024, Montgomery, AL – On...
May 5, 2024...Six inmates at Alabama prisons are alleging the state violated Alabama’s constitution by forcing them to work against their will, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. Alabama voters...
May 5, 2024... Baher Azmy , legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and lead counsel for the plaintiffs said, “We are of course disappointed by the jury’s failure to reach a unanimous verdict in...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to be a member of the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST): join FAST, the National Immigration Project, and the National Immigrant Justice Center on...
Updated: May 12, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to be a member of the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST). On Thursday, May 16 , FAST is hosting a National Day of Action to call for the passage of...
Updated: May 13, 2024
May 16, 2024"Six incarcerated people in the state of Alabama have filed a lawsuit against their governor and the Commissioner of Corrections. Alabama’s prison system is the most overcrowded in the country, where...
June 7, 2024...That lack of attention makes it easy to forget that more than two decades after its establishment as a detention camp for suspects in the War on Terror, 30 men are still being held at Guantánamo...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights on July 29 for a hearing in our lawsuit, Stanley v. Ivey , which challenges involuntary servitude in Alabama prisons. The Defendants, Governor Kay Ivey and...
Updated: June 14, 2024
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