Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Law Firms Abused Legal Process by Trying to Sue an Entire Social Movement January 10, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Earth First! Journal served a motion for...
AL ODAH/BOUMEDIENE LEGAL ARGUMENT AND IMPLICATIONS Boumediene v. Bush: Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction...
In June 2012, Mayor Edwin Lee of San Francisco, California stated that he was considering implementing a "New York City-style" stop and frisk policy. On August 2, 2012, the Center for Constitutional...
Rosemary R. Corbett, New York, is a Faculty Fellow with the Bard Prison Initiative and has a PhD in Religion from Columbia University with a focus on Islam in the United States. She has previously...
Set to take place on the anniversary of the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, the call for a national prison strike today, Friday, September 9, by those inside prison...
January 16, 2014, Geneva – Today, the Vatican was summoned before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to report on its record in addressing widespread sexual violence within...
Nermeen Arastu is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. In this role, she guides her...
ICE Documents Obtained Under Freedom of Information Act Show Surveillance and Targeting of Sanctuary Leaders October 22, 2020, New York – Today, immigrant rights groups released documents obtained...
Join the Center for Constitutonal Rights at an event honoring Rhonda Copelon's decades-long commitment to human rights work and the establishment of the Copelon Fund for Gender Justice. Rhonda...
