October 20, 2017A court-appointed monitor overseeing changes for the New York Police Department has asked a judge to enshrine a new evaluation system for officers that de-emphasizes the number of street stops they...
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Managing Attorney Shayana Kadidal will be arguing before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Ali v. Trump . Abdul Razak...
Updated: December 10, 2019
Join the Debevoise Muslim Affinity Group, CUNY CLEAR, the Muslim Bar Association of New York, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and the Center for the Constitutional Rights...
Updated: October 9, 2020
January 21, 2021...In July 2019, Espinal was fined $497,777 by ICE for not leaving the country, though the fine was later rescinded by the agency in October. She was fined again for $59,126 in 2020, according to the...
November 30, 2017Remember the collective side-eye the internet gave the FBI when it declared "black identity extremists" a domestic terrorism threat ? Well, according to department emails reviewed by Al Jazeera , it...
June 5, 2019...To combat the use of SLAPPs to stifle activism, progressive groups came together in 2018 to form the Protect the Protest Task Force . Jana Morgan, a Task Force member, says that more than 20...
Handbook for Law Students Interested in Social Justice Includes writings like "The Letter I Wish I Had Read Before My First Year in Law School,""Transcending the Pedagogy of the Oppressor," and "...
Updated: June 29, 2015
June 29, 2016The so-called "guaranteed minimums" assure that a specific number of detainees will be held in captivity at all times at the for-profit ran institutions. "Guaranteed minimums, which appear mostly in...
January 8, 2018...For applicants in Yemen, which is experiencing a major cholera outbreak amid a violent conflict , the “hardship” is clear, said Ibraham Qatabi, a Yemeni American activist with the Center for...
September 1, 2015For years California prisons used soundproof and windowless cells to confine thousands of inmates in near total isolation for years. But hunger strikes, Sacramento debates and now a court case...
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