In Alabama’s complex history, the remnants of slavery in the state’s prison system cast a long shadow. Following the legal abolition of slavery in Alabama, through the ratification of the Thirteenth...
Updated: December 23, 2025
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)’s guidance and other related...
Updated: December 12, 2025
Facing another threatened industrial buildout in the heart of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, Rural Roots Louisiana and Louisiana Bucket Brigade brought a public records case against Ascension Parish...
Updated: December 10, 2025
Facing another threatened industrial buildout in the heart of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, Rural Roots Louisiana and Louisiana Bucket Brigade brought a public records case against Ascension Economic...
Updated: December 10, 2025
Dr. Badar Khan Suri is a visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, and an Indian national. He is married to a United States citizen of Palestinian origin whose family is from...
Updated: December 4, 2025
For decades, residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have experienced threats to their health and wellbeing from an outdated, failing public water system. For the past three years, this predominantly...
Updated: December 1, 2025
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
Faruk Atik Adir filed a habeas petition on November 5, 2025, challenging his unlawful detention in immigration custody at Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi – a privately-run...
Updated: November 11, 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
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