February 1, 2016Last month, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States to document human rights violations against people of African descent in...
August 24, 2020Debunking the myth of no COVID-19 cases in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, several civil rights and racial justice organizations pushed back on efforts...
May 24, 2021New York State Legislature introduces “Dignity Not Detention Act” to end ICE detention The New York State Senate and Assembly introduced the Dignity Not Detention Act Monday, a bill that would end...
July 2, 2018With a conservative Supreme Court majority, it was no surprise the justices upheld Trump's Muslim Ban. But there was a silver lining: In a vote against the racist policy, Justice Breyer cited on page...
CCR has joined the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) , a national leader on HIV policy development, along with 21 national and state organizations, in an amicus brief on behalf of Michael Johnson...
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In October 2019, NYPD then-Sergeant Jonathan Rivera shot and killed Allan Feliz during a traffic stop in the Bronx. NYPD officers stated they pulled Allan over for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt,...
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July 22, 2016Tomorrow, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California will take action to bring attention to prison conditions...
New York, NY – This week, the full Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused to reconsider the ruling of a three-judge panel which held that key provisions of the federal statute that makes it a...
May 20, 2019We demanded transparency on Puerto Rico's undemocratic federal fiscal control board [caption align="right"] [/caption] In January 2017, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with Latino Justice...
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