March 2014Ending a long legal saga that began back in 2005, the de Blasio administration has agreed to pay approximately $98 million in back pay, fringe benefits and interest to FDNY applicants who took two...
When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
Anne White Hat details collusion and violence geared to quash movement resisting fossil fuel extraction September 14, 2022, Washington, D.C. – Today, Anne White Hat, a Sicangu Lakota Water Protector...
Inspiration from Isolation Please join us Sunday, March 15th at 12:30 pm in Inglewood for Inspiration from Isolation , a presentation featuring CCR President Jules Lobel discussing new expert...
Updated: March 10, 2015
April 20, 2020We're taking on ICE in Louisiana and Mississippi for overcrowded and unhealthy conditions in detention centers [caption align="right"] [/caption] “We are washing our hands with shampoo because that...
July 2009The overwelmingly white New York City Fire Department used written recruitment exams that discriminated against Black and Hipanic job applicants, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled.
June 26, 2025Impunity for Genocide Reverberates Throughout the Region
Latinx Heritage Month: Empire, Erasure, and Revolution This month, we honor the popular movements in Central and South America and in the Caribbean fighting against U.S. intervention that have...
Updated: September 15, 2021
Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 for oral arguments on class certification in Ashker v. Brown , our federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California. In the...
Updated: September 19, 2013
January 4, 2012, New York – In response to President Obama’s New Year’s Eve signing of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act, the Center for Constitutional Rights (...
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