September 18, 2020On September 14th, Dawn Wooten—a nurse working at a Georgia ICE detention center— blew the whistle on the conditions within the privately-operated Irwin County facility: many of the immigrants...
In response to the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The entire Center for Constitutional Rights family mourns...
Judge Coney Barrett Will Satisfy and Entrench the Retrograde Trump Coalition “Supreme Court Not a Reliable Source of Justice” September 23, 2020, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s nomination...
Five Years After Landmark Settlement, Violations Continue September 26, 2020, Palo Alto – Men who spent decades in solitary confinement in California prisons are charging that the California...
October 1, 2020, New York – In response to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of legislative bill SB1064, which was critical in advancing the right to due process for incarcerated people, the...
October 2, 2020... Lawsuit payouts are not withdrawn from the police budget and resources, but rather are taken from the city’s broader fund. As a result, taxpayers are burdened with these costs — in addition to...
October 9, 2020, Lafayette, LA – Late yesterday, 13 medically vulnerable people held in immigration detention in Louisiana filed an urgent request for release due to their high risk of life-...
On October 23rd, the Coalition for Civil Freedoms and the Center for Constitutional Rights will examine the recent unfortunate dismissal of the Aref v. Barr lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons...
Updated: October 21, 2020
November 6, 2020... According to the Center for Constitutional Rights , the BOP created these units to isolate and segregate certain prisoners in the federal prison system from the rest of the federal inmate...
Elsa Maria Mota is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in advocating for immigrant rights and racial justice by challenging government misconduct...
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