In the summer of 2012, the Buffalo Police Department created a "Strike Force" Unit to aggressively patrol and conduct vehicle checkpoints in "high crime" areas of the city. While purportedly set up...
Updated: June 3, 2026
Sabrina Carmona Sanchez filed a habeas petition on February 2, 2026 challenging her unlawful detention in immigration custody at Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi — a privately...
Updated: June 2, 2026
In October 2019, NYPD then-Sergeant Jonathan Rivera shot and killed Allan Feliz during a traffic stop in the Bronx. NYPD officers stated they pulled Allan over for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt,...
Updated: May 27, 2026
Mohammad Abushanab is a 27-year-old Palestinian man who was born in Tulkarm in the West Bank and has spent nearly 16 months in immigration detention. He came to the United States in July of 2024 to...
Updated: April 14, 2026
This case aims to end the state of Pennsylvania’s mandatory imposition of death-by-incarceration sentences, otherwise known as life without parole, for Derek Lee and others convicted of felony murder...
Updated: March 26, 2026
In 2023, news reports exposed a years-long pattern of torture, extreme violence, and other abusive practices by deputies in the Sheriff’s Office to coerce confessions and manufacture evidence for...
Updated: January 22, 2026
Alma Bella Bowman has lived in Macon, Georgia for nearly 50 years. She was born in the Philippines to a Filipina mother and a U.S. citizen father serving in the U.S. Navy when he met Alma’s mother...
Updated: November 26, 2025
Center for Constitutional Rights lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 29, 2025, seeking records of the Trump administration’s communications with...
Updated: November 20, 2025
The Center for Constitutional Rights in collaboration with the National Immigration Project, the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ), The Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama (HICA),...
Updated: November 20, 2025
Melika Olya, an Iranian native, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on March 13, 2025, challenging the legality of her indefinite detention at the El Paso Service Processing Center in Texas...
Updated: November 14, 2025
Since at least 1998, U.S. immigration authorities have used dental radiographs in their process for determining the age of migrants even though the technique has been widely discredited. Further,...
Updated: November 14, 2025
This case challenges the latest iteration of the government's policy and practice of turning back vulnerable asylum seekers at the Southern border. It follows after the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: November 4, 2025
In recent years and into the current Trump administration, both the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agencies have contracted with technology companies...
Updated: October 30, 2025
Gutierrez v. Noem is a case filed by two men who are nationals of Nicaragua currently in immigration detention at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, on behalf of themselves and a similarly situated...
Updated: September 2, 2025
Rights groups are seeking information about President Trump’s plan to establish a massive immigration detention center, by far the country’s largest, at Guantánamo. With immigrants arriving in...
Updated: July 29, 2025
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