On Friday, February 21st, The Play Company will facilitate a discussion between Vincent Warren, Executive Director of Center for Constitutional Rights, and Hina Shamsi, the Director of the ACLU...
Updated: February 21, 2014
One hot August night in 2006, in New York’s Greenwich Village, a group of young African-American lesbian friends are violently and sexually threatened by an older man. They defend themselves...
Updated: May 30, 2014
Oral Arguments on Police Unions’ Appeal of Denial to Intervene in Stop and Frisk Case Please join CCR for oral arguments in Floyd v. the City of New York at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, October 15. In...
Updated: October 9, 2014
The Center for Constitutional Rights has assembled this fact sheet examining the death penalty in the United States from a human rights perspective.
Updated: May 16, 2012
March 2007The New York State Court of appeals will allow a lawsuit filed by CCR to proceed, which challenges the constitutionality of the NYSDOCS prison telephone contract.
January 2006DOCS's monopoly contract with MCI charge the families of prisoners up to 630% more than average consumer rates to accept collect calls from inmates.
January 2007Spitzer stops phone companies and state from ripping off N.Y. inmates' families.
January 2007Governor Eliot Spitzer says excessive telephone charges paid by the families of state inmates will be reduced by April to the cost of regular calls.
February 2007A ruling by the State Court of Appeals overturned decisions by lower courts and ruled that a lower court must hear a suit filed by families of inmates, alleging that the state illegally charged...
February 2009New York City police officers stopped more than half a million people on the streets last year, more than in any previous 12-month period in the years since the Police Department began reporting the...
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