"Our courageous clients will continue to fight for the rights of incarcerated workers.”
July 13, 2015The number of African-Americans in the Fire Department has nearly doubled in the past two years. At this rate, by next summer there will be more black firefighters than there have ever been in the...
What is the greatest threat to free speech at U.S. universities today? Who is trying to block students from organizing around Palestine on American campuses? How are they doing this? Can professors...
Updated: January 27, 2016
May 16, 2024"Six incarcerated people in the state of Alabama have filed a lawsuit against their governor and the Commissioner of Corrections. Alabama’s prison system is the most overcrowded in the country, where...
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM This panel discussion will take place at the 70th Annual National Lawyers Guild Convention in Washington, DC. In early 2002, people around the world watched with dismay as the...
Updated: October 28, 2007
June 16, 2017When Mary Sheilds was first sent to prison, her daughter was too young to understand why their phone calls would cut off mid-conversation and why she would not hear from her mother again for days...
September 9, 2019, Oakland, CA — A federal court has reinstated a nationwide injunction blocking a Trump administration asylum ban that denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to co-sponsor monthly vigils calling for the closure of Guantánamo. These vigils will take place in several cities in the U.S. and abroad on the...
Updated: September 18, 2023
August 2006A federal appeals court revived a 10-year-old lawsuit that alleges the basic test NYC public school teachers must pass is discriminatory against blacks and Hispanics
November 2009In response to Louisiana justice Keith Bardwell's refusal to wed an interracial couple, CCR director Bill Quigley comments, "Maybe he's worried the kids will grow up and be president."
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