On July 19, 2007, Governor Eliot Spitzer signed into law the Family Connections bill, which states that prison telephone service is a right and not a revenue generator. "Words cannot describe...
November 24, 2009, Albany, NY – Yesterday, the Court of Appeals of the State of New York affirmed the dismissal of Walton v. New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) . The...
Updated: September 16, 2009
Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Federal Prisons: Cruel and Inhuman or Necessary? Albany Law School 80 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 Rochester Moot Court Room Room 209 in the Main...
Updated: March 10, 2011
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney will speak on a panel at MCNY about the Floyd trial and August decision from the judge. All members of the community are welcome to attend. On October 31,...
Updated: November 8, 2013
September 22, 2011 . The execution of Troy Anthony Davis by lethal injection at 11:08 p.m. on September 21 marked a low point for justice in America and has further tarnished our country’s...
October 25, 2011, New York —Last night, Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to publicly disclose by November 1 a previously withheld internal...
June 12, 2013, New Orleans – Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a settlement with Louisiana was finalized that...
July 29, 2011, Phoenix and New York – Last night, a year after Sunita Patel, a civil rights attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, was arrested while documenting law enforcement...
Please join us Thursday, November 11, 2010 for an exciting and informative panel on “Experiments in Social Isolation: Communications Management Units and the Expansion of Unconstitutional...
Updated: November 10, 2010
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