September 16, 2021...With the passage of time comes new problems. The oldest prisoner, a Pakistani cleared for release in May but who remains at Guantanamo, is 74 and has heart disease and other ailments. A number of...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and CUNY Law Review will host a panel to discuss use of creative advocacy and lawyering to challenge dominant political narratives. There will be a special...
Updated: March 4, 2015
Joseph Thompson, a green card holder from Jamaica, came to the United States in 1985. After an encounter with police in Dalton, Georgia, Joseph was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Updated: February 16, 2022
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live community reading of Frederick Douglass's speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
Updated: July 2, 2020
CCR Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will speak about recent laws passed by state legislatures to try to suppress Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) at the fourth annual Israel Lobby and...
Updated: March 23, 2017
March 24, 2018...As of February, TigerSwan has added savior to its role by creating maps calling Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Harvey "billion dollar weather and climate disasters." Center for Constitutional...
January 22, 2010 Judge Orders New York to Correct Bias in Fire Department By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in...
CCR is proud to co-sponsor this NYC performance of There Is A Field, a new play, written by Jen Marlowe and directed by Noelle Ghoussaini, about Aseel Asleh, a 17-year old Palestinian citizen of...
Updated: February 29, 2016
May 17, 2021...With my legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, I’m once again challenging my placement in a men’s prison, along with the GDC’s failure to keep me...
June 27, 2012, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal class action lawsuit seeking to remove from the Louisiana sex offender registry all individuals...
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