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...
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...
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...
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...
Updated: April 8, 2010
January 29, 2016The movement to put private prison contractors out of business won some amazing victories in 2015. In the last two months, responding to organized action by California’s Afrikan Black Coalition and...
July 13, 2021, Newark, N.J. – Fifteen immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody today lodged a multi-individual complaint with the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Office...
November 17, 2015Last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris left 172 people dead, hundreds more injured, and the world reeling in grief and recoiling in horror. The carnage in Beirut drew little Western media...
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...
April 25, 2024...The plaintiffs suing CACI are represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a human rights organization. The group won a $5 million settlement in 2013 in a similar case against the Titan...
CCR is a proud cosponsor of #LawStrikesBack, a national effort organized by our friends at the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and a rally in coordination with the nationwide #GeneralStrike planned for...
Updated: February 16, 2017
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