Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) was a plaintiff in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s federal lawsuit challenging policies and practices at the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s)...
Adapted from remarks delivered by Vince Warren upon accepting the 2016 Haywood Burns Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Civil Rights Committee of the New York State Bar Association, New...
It’s now been nine months since the first news stories were published about a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the presence of environmental toxins, afflicting lawyers and other staff at the...
Arkansas’ horror show continued last night with the first double execution carried out in the state since September 1999, of Jack Harold Jones and Marcel Williams. [1] No state had performed a double...
Two weeks ago, on the 102nd anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, I attended the Black Alliance for Just Immigration’s (BAJI) Black-centered delegation to the U.S. Southern border in San Diego,...
CCR supports the call to Divest from the War Machine CCR is joining a coalition of groups in a Week of Action beginning today in support of the Divest from the War Machine campaign . The campaign...
Roles are new positions for the social justice organization Dec. 13, 2018, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights will welcome Donita Judge as its associate executive director and Nadia Ben-...
Also, Members of Congress, Scholars, NGOs, State Attorneys General File Six Amicus Briefs in Support of Ongoing Lawsuit SAN DIEGO – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Center for...
December 3, 2019, Phoenix, Arizona – Today, a coalition of human rights organizations released an in-depth report about the role of the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the...
Trump Administration Agrees to Terms in First Amendment Suit Days Before Election October 28, 2020 , Burlington, VT – In a settlement to a major federal lawsuit, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
