September 19, 2015For almost 14 years, the United States’ military prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has sat festering on the edge of the Caribbean and the Constitution. Opened by President George W. Bush in the...
October 29, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed a federal district court decision, which essentially ruled prisoners who were confined in Communication Management Units (CMUs) did not have their...
May 30, 2017Street stops by New York City police officers have plunged since 2011 and a new statistical analysis by a federal monitor concludes that the racial disparity in stops is narrowing. The analysis,...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education, Rachel Meeropol , at the 2019 Practising Law Institute's Prison Law...
Updated: November 1, 2019
August 21, 2020...the Center for Constitutional Rights and the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP, on behalf of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit to...
September 16, 2020...In the absence of photographs, comics and the graphic novel format have the power to make people and places come to life. “You’re seeing the faces of the people who are in the stories,” Mirk says...
December 11, 2020On Nov. 23 Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (...
January 6, 2021... "If that's their kind of attitude and orientation towards civilian complaints, I don't think it's a surprise then that officers who have complaint histories don't really suffer any adverse...
February 17, 2021...“Governmental services providing one response to a group of people and not another is clearly a form of discrimination, and county governments transferring 911 calls to an agency that does not...
On Monday, February 22nd, the Center for Global Justice will be hosting a webinar in which Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren and Senior Staff Attorney...
Updated: February 18, 2021
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