The Center for Constitutional Rights is seeking community input for a potential settlement in a case regarding the rights of homeless New Yorkers and shelter reform in New York City. This moment...
Updated: November 20, 2019
June 2, 2015The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation's jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the U.S., totaling 6.8 million...
September 1, 2016Today marks one year since the settlement in CCR’s class-action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California , which ended indeterminate long-term solitary confinement in California state prisons. As a...
On Wednesday, February 10th, join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the New York Civil Liberties Union for a conversation about reimagining public safety by centering the communities most...
Updated: February 8, 2021
November 2013Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
December 13, 2017, New York – In response to the court-appointed monitor in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York filing his seventh status...
Presented by CUNY Law School's Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality, this event will feature a discussion with several distinguished members of the legal profession and activists...
Updated: March 20, 2012
August 21, 2019... In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights said: "This is a long overdue modicum of justice for Eric Garner’s family, five years after Mr. Garner’s unjust killing. Now the NYPD must...
Reparations are urgent and possible . Join us for an interactive and immersive evening with scholars, activists and advocates on our collective obligation and capacity to achieve historical...
Updated: September 30, 2019
The Legacy of Arthur Kinoy and the Inspirational and Collaborative Dimensions of Clinical Legal Education: Celebrating 40 Years of Clinical Legal Education at Rutgers–Newark On Friday, April 3,...
Updated: March 24, 2009
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