...The ruling undermines the 2015 settlement the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDRC) and prisoners had instituted, agreeing to the hours one can be in solitary confinement...
June 5, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to breaking news first published in The Guardian showing a secret Foreign...
The NYPD said Friday it would implement the recommendations of a police monitor to give better guidance to its patrol officers on when they can detain and question people on the street. Monitor Peter...
California will put an end to the practice of keeping prisoners in solitary confinement for decades because of gang affiliation, under a proposed legal settlement announced Tuesday. The settlement,...
W hen Palestinian-American professor Steven Salaita received the e-mail that he was being fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was crushed. “Everything...
Muslims are duly noting New York City’s recent settlement of two high-profile civil rights lawsuits challenging the city’s police surveillance in North Jersey, but a similar suit in New Jersey will...
Pointing to government-friendly rulings on police illegal searches and seizures and Guantánamo detainee rights, some criminal justice reform advocates are greeting President Obama’s nomination of...
CCR Communications Associate and former client Lauren Gazzola will be a featured speaker at the Animal Rights National Conference , an annual gathering of movement leaders and new activists coming...
... The case , Ziglar v. Abbasi , arises out of the roundup of hundreds of immigrants in the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Federal officials arrested more than 750 men from South...
It has been more than 15 years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, but litigation related to the attacks and the U.S. government’s response continues to wind its way...
