April 22, 2019Border patrol must answer for migrant deaths On April 19, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with No More Deaths , seeking documents...
October 21, 2015This week, Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the South Florida Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and CAIR Florida sent a letter to Florida State Senators urging them to...
January 25, 2016Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) was a plaintiff in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s federal lawsuit challenging policies and practices at the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s)...
CLINIC v. Rubio — Organizations and individuals are suing to enforce the law and make sure that the State Department follows federal immigration law as passed by Congress, and returns to processing...
Updated: February 17, 2026
September 2, 2015If mass incarceration is one of modern America’s deepest pathologies, solitary confinement is the concentrated version of it: far too many people locked up for far too long for no good reason, and at...
October 15, 2018... The Center for Constitutional Rights took up Mr C’s case and he was freed from detention on Wednesday. On Thursday, he filed paperwork to be reunited with his son. “Friday, the child should’ve...
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Updated: January 24, 2020
Help us honor the legacy of Michael Ratner and keep up the fight!
On October 6, 2016, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Michael Ratner Campaign for the Next Generation, rooted in the values that have always guided us and aimed at building a future as strong as our past. The Campaign deepens our capacity to act as the go-to legal and advocacy partner of social justice movements, spend more time on the ground, shoulder-to-shoulder with our partners, and recruit, mentor, and train young movement lawyers and advocates!
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January 6, 2021... The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was involved in producing a report in 2017 called “The Darkest Corner.” It was referenced by the judge and outlined the conditions prisoners face at ADX...
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...
Updated: June 11, 2019
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