Families in New York with a loved one in prison won a long-awaited victory on January 8, 2007 when Governor Spitzer committed to end the burdensome, back door tax on collect calls to inmates'...
May 19, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested hearings on a new federal database that would require the collection of millions of new DNA samples and keep...
March 31, 2011 - In 1976, 17-year-old Joelito Filártiga was abducted and later tortured to death by Americo Norberto Peña-Irala, the inspector general in the Department of Investigation...
On April 22, 2009, the Senate Armed Services Committee issued the declassified version of its full report on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody, particularly in Guantanamo, Iraq and...
April 30, 2013, New York – Today, President Obama spoke about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it...
Bill is Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years...
Updated: January 14, 2010
May 27, 2019We're suing to block Louisian's anti-protest law [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, landowners, community members, environmental justice advocates, and a journalist filed a lawsuit...
October 19, 2020Take Action - Black trans lives matter [caption align="right"] [/caption] "We can no longer sit as we become extinct. I want to believe in the triumph of human spirit. That there are people who find...
June 7, 2021Happy Pride Month! Stay tuned for programming later this month It’s Pride Month, a month that centers the radical legacy of Black and Brown queer and trans people who rose up against police brutality...
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