... Traditionally, the CCRB defers allegations of profiling and bias-based policing to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. But with over 3,400 complaints filed between 2014 to 2021, only four were...
... But stop and frisks have increased dramatically under Adams and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, whom he appointed in December. Police recorded 4,116 stop-and-frisks in the second quarter of...
... Earlier this year, the Downtown Brooklyn + Dumbo Art Fund opened “ Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds, ” a ten-foot sculpture touching on themes of incarceration and dividing communities...
...The installation opened to the public on September 30 and will be on display until January of 2023 with the help of many community partners like the Dumbo Improvement District, the New York Civil...
The Bertha Social Justice Institute of the Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to co-organize the second annual People's Law Conference in New Orleans. Join fellow law students and...
Amidst escalating attacks on the LGBTQI+ community worldwide, we are witnessing alarming developments in Uganda, where on March 21, 2023, the Parliament passed a sweeping Anti-Homosexuality Act with...
The “turnback” case and campaign highlight how the fundamental right to seek asylum saves lives January 28, 2026, Washington, D.C. – A coalition of legal and advocacy organizations today launched a...
... "It would have been very difficult if not impossible to have litigated this case without the resources that the Weil firm brought to this case," Jules Lobel of the Center for Constitutional...
"When we were sentenced to death," wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, "we weren't sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept...
... What is perhaps most brutal about solitary is its stillness. In the box, there is no plot, no movement, and often no dialogue—just endless solitude. In 2014, Center for Constitutional Rights...
