...Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman in a men’s prison, is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) after she was sexually assaulted more than 14 times. Diamond, represented by the Center...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said in a statement that the verdict "is saddening, infuriating, and utterly unsurprising." "It came at the end of a trial in which Judge Bruce Schroeder...
... I’m also very shy about describing myself as an activist. I have so many friends and colleagues that have developed their lives at Center for Constitutional Rights and places like this. I feel...
... This week, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) submitted an emergency appeal on Diamond’s behalf that could potentially force the...
The lawyer representing Tariq Ba Odah, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who began a hunger strike in 2007, said Friday that his client had lost more than half of his...
...The two women are members of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a local environmentalist group. An attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the two women dismissed the charges as...
In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield's murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten...
The New York Police Department may not be accurately reporting the number of stop-and-frisk encounters, casting doubt on the extent of the decline in the crime-fighting tactic, according to a federal...
Attorneys for Black Lives Matter activists sued the federal government this week in an effort to obtain information about its monitoring of constitutionally protected protests. Filed Thursday in...
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the provision of public services, including transportation. Discrimination occurs...
