February 1, 2016Recently we passed another sad milestone in the history of the Guantánamo prison: as of Sunday, January 31st, President Obama has kept Guantánamo open for longer than President Bush did. The standard...
Center for Constitutional Rights client endured nearly 23 years of detention without charge Biden administration should transfer remaining uncharged men and finally end system of indefinite detention...
September 3, 2024, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights is now representing former Board Chair and Columbia Law Professor Katherine Franke, alongside cooperating counsel Kathleen Peratis,...
E xpanded Travel Ban Still a Muslim Ban, Still Xenophobic January 31, 2020, New York – In response to today’s announcement that the Trump administration has expanded its travel ban to six additional...
As its on-going celebration of the updated sixth edition of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook , Center for Constitutional Rights Co-author and Senior Legal Worker Ian Head speaks with a number of...
Updated: August 25, 2021
February 2, 2016On February 2, 2012, after NYPD officers unlawfully entered into his home without a warrant, probable cause, or any other legal justification, NYPD officer Richard Haste shot and killed 18-year-old...
July 23, 2018Court Orders NYPD to Record All Citizen Encounters [caption align="right"] [/caption] In a victory for New Yorkers, last week a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin electronically recording all...
November 5, 2015CCR’s long-standing challenge to the experimental prison units known as Communication Management Units , or “CMUs,” got an important boost this week with the filing of two separate friend-of-the-...
Celebrates His Legacy In Inspiring Movements for Justice August 9, 2019, New York – Five years after the murder of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the Center for...
#This Stops Today #11 Days of Action calls for an end to discriminatory and abusive policing and other systemic changes. CCR has signed on to endorse these #11DaysofAction and its accompanying 11...
Updated: December 18, 2014
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