January 19, 2018, New York – Today, in a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court to protect the ability of people detained in...

New Filing Seeks One-Year Extension of Court Monitoring Based on Violations November 20, 2017, New York, Palo Alto – Two years after the historic settlement of Ashker v. Governor of California marked...

Newly-Filed Evidence Bolsters Lawsuit Charging Illegal U.S. Practices Nov.14, 2017, Los Angeles – Today, an immigrant rights group, Los Angeles-based Al Otro Lado, and six asylum seekers filed a...

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...

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’...