In April 2014, hundreds of documents detailing the process for designating and keeping prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons Communications Management Units (CMUs) were made public for the first...
On July 15, 2010, the Olympia Food Co-op’s board passed a resolution by consensus to enact a peaceful boycott of Israeli goods. Annual board elections were held in November 2010, in which a number of...
May 10, 2013 -- Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined the mounting opposition to so-called "ag-gag" legislation--state laws that would criminalize undercover investigations...
The CCR represented Seeds of Peace and Three Rivers Climate Convergence charging that police used illegal searches, vehicle seizures, raids and detentions to discourage protests at the G20 Summit. A...
There are 70 other men in situations like Abu-Sayyaf's split between the populace at the Marion CMU facility and a second CMU facility in Terre Haute, Indiana. These are 70 stories of doctors...
Four more prisoners have been moved to secretive prison units known as Communication Management Units, or CMUs, Democracy Now! reports. CMUs are the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Center for...
Activists prosecuted under Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) have in several cases ended up in the "Communications Management Units" at two federal prisons. Created secretly during the...
When an upstate imam named Yassin Aref was convicted on a suspect terrorism charge, he was sent to a secretive prison denounced by civil libertarians as a Muslim quarantine.
New documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by CCR client Ryan Shapiro show the FBI tracking animal videotapers and activists as domestic terrorists.
Attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit Thursday in Massachusetts challenging the constitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, saying the controversial...
