November 21, 2007, New York, NY – Yesterday, the RAND Corporation issued a report [attached at the bottom of the press release], commissioned by the New York Police Foundation and requested by...
September 3, 2013, New York – Today, in a case filed on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attorneys argued that video recordings of CCR client Mohammed al Qahtani at...
Join grassroots activists, human rights organizations, and advocates for the detained men in holding President Obama to his promise by taking action. Together, we say “Not another broken...
Updated: May 23, 2014
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we’ve developed a distinctive set of tools and strategies that mine the fine veins of principles that are justice-enabling, use litigation strategically to...
Updated: December 11, 2024
A habeas corpus petition on behalf of the only Guantánamo detainee who the government has openly admitted was tortured.
Updated: April 4, 2022
The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing on August 3rd 2009, of a core member the CCR family, Marilyn Clement. A lifelong social-justice activist who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr...
Updated: December 13, 2010
This year's Bertha Justice Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer by profiling global and domestic models of "movement lawyering"--lawyers and organizers working...
Updated: August 13, 2014
10 Years Ago this Week, We Went to Court to Expose the Racism of the NYPD
Updated: March 17, 2023
September 24, 2014, New York – Today, plaintiffs in the Center for Constitutional Rights stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
November 30, 2021Since a hearing in May, where Ashley Diamond detailed abuse by both incarcerated men and prison officials, she has suffered two more sexual assaults
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