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#Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights (https://ccrjustice.org/) — a progressive legal advocacy organization litigating cases involving civil rights, immigration, and government overreach. Their legal challenges are cited throughout this archive.

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Guantanamo Bay Immigrant Detention: Solitary Confinement and Ill-Treatment

Immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay face conditions that Human Rights Watch says may amount to ill-treatment prohibited under international law: isolation for up to 23 hours a day, punitive restraint in a chair, and incommunicado detention. ACLU and CCR lawsuits challenge the offshore detention as unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act.