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: January 19, 2023
This short briefing paper is presented to the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement (UN EMLER), to assist in the...
Updated: March 16, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: April 28, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the...
Updated: November 3, 2023
Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least 22 ½ hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are denied telephone calls,...
Updated: August 15, 2024
On September 30, 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative sent a Special Communication Complaint to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery;...
Updated: September 30, 2024
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
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: February 18, 2025
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: May 6, 2025
Open records requests from RISE St. James in Louisiana revealed critically important information about the burial grounds of formerly enslaved Black people. Photo credit: Bron Moyi for Louisiana...
Updated: June 10, 2025
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