October 22, 2023...According to CDCR’s latest records, from June 2023 , there were 3,167 people in segregated confinement in California. The number is a major reduction from levels of a decade ago. According to the...
August 31, 2015I feel like there is a heavy weight on my chest – it’s as if I’m breathing through a needle hole. And then I ask myself, “If I write or say something, is anybody going to listen to me? Is it really...
January 1, 2017Two of the most important cases that the Supreme Court will hear during its current Term involve the availability of “ Bivens remedies” judge made causes of action that allow individuals to seek...
March 2014After more than seven years of litigation that led to a series of reforms in how the New York Fire Department recruits minorities, the city settled a lawsuit against the department on Tuesday,...
July 2013" On Monday, June 22, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the dismissal of a federal lawsuit that bears my name, Blum v.Holder and challenges the constitutionality of the Animal...
CCR President Michael Ratner will be making four stops in Western Massachusetts to talk about CCR and the release of his new book The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld. Opportunities to see Michael are as...
Updated: September 23, 2008
Please join leaders in the NYC police accountability movement for a press conference on Wednesday, September 24th at 12:00 pm on the steps of City Hall demanding that the joint reform process move...
Updated: September 19, 2014
June 13, 2015The University of Illinois administration has been formally censured by the American Association of University Professors over the Steven Salaita case. Members attending the AAUP's 101st national...
June 17, 2015A divided U.S. appeals court said the federal government's top law enforcers can be sued by former inmates who claim their civil rights were violated while jailed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...
August 24, 2015Justice Department lawyers argue in a filing unsealed Monday that a 74-pound Guantánamo hunger striker is not sick enough to require hospitalization or continuous tube feedings and that the Yemeni...
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