Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Updated: August 7, 2020
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we believe in the transformative power of art and culture, and have long worked with artists, storytellers, and cultural institutions to not only reflect the...
Updated: August 20, 2020
As part of coalitions of LGBTQIA+ rights and justice organizations, the Center for Constitutional Rights has submitted letters and testimony to Congressional committees, federal commissions, and...
Updated: September 23, 2020
Ashley Diamond is a Black, transgender woman and social justice and prisoners' rights activist whose landmark victory against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) in 2016 made national...
Updated: November 23, 2020
Artwork by Micah Bazant "This fight is not just my fight, it's our fight. My hope is that the future is brighter for people like me. I hope this lawsuit forever changes the way transgender people in...
Updated: November 23, 2020
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Amistad Law Project (ALP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of six individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By...
Updated: February 19, 2021
The overlapping crises facing our global community are the result of generations of political decisions. And while we must collectively uproot oppressive ideologies and institutions, President Joe...
Updated: May 10, 2021
On October 25, 2005, in Washington, D.C., United States District Court Judge Gladys Kessler issued an opinion in the case of four Saudi nationals on hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp...
In Washington, D.C, on June 13, 2005, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that prison officials cannot confine inmates in long term solitary confinement in a supermaximum prison without...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, in alliance with the National Lawyers Guild, has just released “The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook: How to Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violations of Your...
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