Martha Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America is a civil rights case which challenged the monopolies that phone companies and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) maintain in the prison...
Updated: October 22, 2007
May 16, 2014, New York – Today, in response to new revelations published in Harper’s Magazine regarding the deaths of three Guantánamo prisoners in June 2006, the Center for...
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
February 5, 2021In the wake of the 2020 uprisings following the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless other Black and brown people whose lives have been cut short by police violence, conversations...
Fordham Censorship Motivated by Anti-Palestinian Bias, Advocates Say January 21, 2020, New York – Today, civil rights groups asked the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York State,...
On October 14, 2025, two Trinidadian men, Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, were killed by a missile strike launched by the United States government. Mr. Joseph and Mr. Samaroo had been fishing...
Updated: January 27, 2026
February 28, 2016Civil rights attorney Vincent Warren has been awarded the New York State Bar Association's Haywood Burns Memorial Award. He received the award during the State Bar Association's Annual Meeting in New...
January 5, 2017Many of us bid 2016 goodbye with a toast of “good riddance” – what with the deaths of cultural icons like David Bowie and Prince, the Pulse massacre, the horror of Aleppo, and of course the rise of...
Join UC Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine for South Africa v. Israel: A Discussion of the ICJ Ruling and Its Legal and Political Implications on Friday, March 8, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30p...
Updated: March 7, 2024
On the Black History Month episode of the Activist Files, Center for Constitutional Rights board member Meena Jagannath speaks with Rob Robinson , a formerly homeless community organizer and housing...
Updated: February 24, 2022
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