Incarcerated individuals throughout Alabama’s prison system are forced into involuntary servitude. Six incarcerated workers, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights through its Southern...
Updated: November 22, 2024
October13, 2009, Albany, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the legality of prison phone rates in oral arguments before the Court of Appeals of the State of New...
Hundreds of Palestinians killed seeking aid at GHF sites; Trump admin has approved $30 million for the “charity” August 20, 2025, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights today filed a lawsuit...
August 30, 2016It’s a hot summer in 1989, and the temperature in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn is not the only thing that is about to reach a boiling point. “Mother- Sisters always watching.” This...
February 1, 2021To honor Black history is to celebrate Black futures and the radical imaginings of our ancestors. Generations of Black freedom fighters have put forward liberatory political, social, and economic...
Prisoners, Some Near-Death, File Urgent Petition for Release from “Ticking Timebomb” Detention Centers April 1, 2020, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National...
Site Plan Hijinks Vitiate Council’s Consent A copy of the letter is available here . May 12, 2021, St. James, LA – Lawyers for RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sent a letter to...
Obstacles to Public Benefits Will Exacerbate Health and Economic Crises, Attorneys Argue May 18, 2020, New York – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Legal Aid Society,...
By Vincent Warren, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights It is a bedrock principle of democratic government that the state cannot be judge, jury and executioner all at once. Yet...
Updated: April 17, 2012
As lawsuit against private landowners proceeds, Gullah Geechee community can now access cemetery for funerals and maintenance February 23, 2026, Beaufort, SC – After a hearing in December 2025, a...
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