Illustration by John Ritter, courtesy Harper’s This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out...
Yesterday, the United Nations special rapporteur on racism issued a powerful statement : the United States makes it way too easy for people to receive death-by-incarceration prison sentences,...
February 8, 2021, Harrisburg, PA – Death By Incarceration, also known as life without the possibility of parole, is a term coined by a movement of advocates working to end the practice, including...
Court Orders NYPD to Record All Citizen Encounters [caption align="right"] [/caption] In a victory for New Yorkers, last week a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin electronically recording all...
March 21, 2011, New York – Last Friday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in “a pattern or...
Victory! Federal court blocks Trump's asylum ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal judge Wednesday blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of asylum...
April 25, 2008, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which brought the historic NYPD racial profiling case Daniels v. City of New York in 1999 in the wake of the Amadou...
April 20, 2019, New York – In response to news that the Trump administration had failed to either re-appoint Center for Constitutional Rights board member Gay McDougall or appoint her successor to...
The NYPD has created an anonymous online survey to get the public’s thoughts about body cameras soon to be worn by cops. The survey was conducted with New York University to get a read on the average...
