April 28, 2016It’s now been nine months since the first news stories were published about a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the presence of environmental toxins, afflicting lawyers and other staff at the...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak alongside a distinguished panel of experts about race, social control, and punishment in the U.S. The panel will be part of a daylong symposium...
Updated: February 7, 2017
September 23, 2016Image: drawing by Marco Perez Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring...
August 30, 2017The racist ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, recently pardoned by his friend Donald Trump, is a despicable human being. He has proudly called his outdoor “tent city” jails “concentration camps”, and his police...
Join Scientific Soul Sessions for the Launch of the International Campaign to Free Russell Maroon Shoats with an evening of music, spoken, word and discussion on Maroon’s life. Featuring:...
Updated: May 1, 2012
On March 13, 2015, CCR and co-counsel submitted 10 reports in Ashker v. Brown , our federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California’s Pelican...
Updated: August 3, 2015
Britney Wilson is a Bertha Justice Fellow in the Government Misconduct Racial Justice docket. Prior to joining the Center for Constitutional Rights, Britney was a Karpatkin Fellow in the Racial...
September 29, 2011 , New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has joined the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and...
Families in New York with a loved one in prison won a long-awaited victory on January 8, 2007 when Governor Spitzer committed to end the burdensome, back door tax on collect calls to inmates'...
October 5, 2016In the last two weeks, some Americans have heard more about a controversial New York City Police Department tactic — “stop and frisk” — than possibly ever before. A whole host of conservative...
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