March 30, 2011, New York – Today, prisoners in two experimental federal prison units called “Communications Management Units” (CMUs) won the right to have their day in court and...
March 28, 2011 - Sexual violence in U.S. prisons and jails has reached crisis proportions. Immigration detainees are at especially high risk for sexual violence and have clear disincentives to...
March 24, 20011, New York – Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, made the following statement on behalf of the Center: Len Weinglass was one of the great...
March 24, 2011, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) launched litigation against two United States agencies seeking information relating to the coup d’...
March 21, 2011, New York – Last Friday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in “a pattern or...
Washington, DC – Top human rights organizations, actors, musicians and activists, including Viggo Mortensen, Roseanne Cash, Amnesty International and the Center for Constitutional Rights, sent...
March 18, 2011, New York and Geneva – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a report on the formal adoption of the United States’ Report at the United Nations Human...
March 16, 2011 - Prominent lawyers and law professors today wrote to Cheryl Mills, U.S. Department of State Chief of Staff, criticizing United States Government interference with former Haitian...
March 16, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement concerning the hearing before the United States Court of Military Commission Review...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...