Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California , California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is...
U.S. Citizens’ Right to Trial at Stake December 13, 2011, New York – In the wake of the House-Senate conference’s approval of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (...
December 13, 2011, New York – In the wake of the House-Senate conference’s approval of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (...
Facilitator issues final report on Joint Remedial Process stop-and-frisk reforms Last week, the facilitator in the Joint Remedial Process (JRP) to reform the New York City Police Department's (NYPD)...
December 12, 2007, Washington, DC – A federal appeals court has issued an interim order requiring the government to take “all measures necessary to preserve” evidence relating to Guantanamo detainee...
June 29, 2011, New York, Jerusalem – Working under cover of dark in the early morning hours of June 26, Israeli bulldozers entered an intact part of the ancient Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem...
J ust over two weeks ago, in a highly publicised event, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia despite global protest and significant evidence of his innocence. Since then, three other men...
In 2011, over 684,000 people were stopped by the NYPD, 87 percent of whom were Black and Latino residents — although they comprise only about 23 percent and 29 percent of New York City’s...
June 14, 2017, New York — Immigrant rights organizations, Center for Constitutional Rights, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), and...
