September 22, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
September 28, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School released a report documenting the U.S. government’...
Join CCR, Communities United for Police Reform , and New Yorkers to rally to demand NYC Council pass the Right to Know Act. The Right to Know Act is a legislative package that will help prevent...
Updated: October 4, 2017
October 2, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
CCR staff attorney Angelo Guisado will participate in a talk-back following the 4:30 p.m. screening of the documentary For Ahkeem . Beginning one year before the fatal police shooting of a Black...
Updated: October 13, 2017
October 3, 2017Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
October 9, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
Highest Court Rejects Private Prisons’ Petition to Limit Release of Government Documents October 10, 2017, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court denied a petition by private prison corporations...
October 10, 2017WASHINGTON - El Tribunal Supremo rechazó este martes bloquear la difusión de documentos del gobierno sobre los centros de detención de inmigrantes, en lo que supone una importante victoria en la...
October 11, 2017The Supreme Court ruled against two private prison corporations, GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America, which sought to block the release of records related to government contracts with...
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