Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being kept in solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in state...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will speak on a 3:30 p.m. panel on May 2nd titled, "Legacies of the Incarceration in Surveillance & Policing of U.S. Communities of Color." The panel will...
On April 29, 2025, together with members of civil society from around the world as well as international legal practitioners and scholars, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Movement Law Lab...
The Justice Department has reportedly concluded it will not bring civil rights charges against police officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
The Justice Department has reportedly concluded it will not bring civil rights charges against police officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
December 10, 2008, New York – Today the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in a post-9/11 detainee’s challenge to former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director...
As New Yorkers, we at CCR all have our personal stories of that terrible day. As an organization, our 9/11 story is about how we sprang into action and how we have continued to respond to the...
Victory! All charges dropped against pipeline protesters Sixteen pipeline protesters and a journalist who had been arrested and charged with felonies in 2018 celebrated a major victory for the First...
By Ella Baker Summer Interns Ruhan Nagra and Thomas Power The opinions of internationally recognized torture experts will be considered in the Sixth Circuit appeal of 67-year-old Palestinian American...
December 15, 2011, Boston – Today, animal rights activists who allege their freedom of speech has been violated by the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) filed a lawsuit asking the...
