... In early 2008, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs who claimed the city’s stop-and-frisk policies were racially biased. The case wound its way...
...In a recent study on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Stanford University’s Mental Health Lab concluded that solitary confinement...
Next month, NYPD officers doing stop-and-frisks will start handing out forms that include an explanation for the encounters and contact information to register complaints, a department spokesman said...
On Saturday, July 25, 2020, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren will join the Buck Hill Falls Committee on Diversity and Inclusion to discuss the...
On March 17, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined dozens of organizations in urging Mayor Bill de Blasio to immediately adopt a series of recommendations to decrease the likelihood of...
We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the case, our work isn’t done...
Many members of Congress continue to battle the structures funding our immigration detention system. Last week, a group of 56 members of the House of Representatives renewed the call for an end to...
... Mr. Qatabi said he worried about the psychological effect this order, which has been described as a Muslim ban, could have. “What we worry about more than ever is that Trump’s executive orders...
