October 2014"The Second Circuit Court of Appeals granted the city’s request to withdraw its appeal in Floyd v New York, a 2008 case challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk...
Does Obama Want to Close Guantánamo or Not? President Obama says he wants to close the Guantánamo Bay prison, but behind the scenes we see a frighteningly different story of inter-agency...
Updated: August 26, 2015
February 16, 2016A court-appointed monitor has called into question the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk data, finding that some officers still don't understand the rules governing the practice and that...
March 27, 2016Ahsan Samad sits on the sofa in the living room of his small family home in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old plumber leans forward and carefully pours the coffee his mother has just brought in...
CCR is a proud cosponsor of the upcoming march, rally, and vigil to #CloseRikers. We will join a contingent of New Yorkers to show Mayor Bill De Blasio that the City is united! The march will begin...
Updated: September 20, 2016
January 20, 2017...“These legislators, and no doubt future ones, are emboldened by the narrow, authoritarian caste of mind emanating from the new President—one that is ignorant of the basic premises of a healthy...
December 11, 2020...Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of the lead plaintiffs’ lawyers in the stop-and-frisk case, said the New York study’s key findings suggest...
December 1, 2021...Each episode features heartbreaking testimony from the relatives and loved ones of missing women, as well as activists and volunteers who’ve experienced loss themselves, along with law enforcement...
August 17, 2023...The Center for Constitutional Rights defined Black August as a time designated to commemorate and honor “the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial...
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