August 9, 2021Black August 2021 — Fighting for Freedom from the Inside Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial complex, who, with their vision...
June 2, 2015The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation's jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the U.S., totaling 6.8 million...
September 17, 2015When the detention facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay opened in early 2002, I was a junior in high school. This week, nearly 14 years later, I’m making my first visit to the base as an...
August 8, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) opposed the Obama administration’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court review an appellate court ruling that high-level...
December 23, 2019A proposed Louisiana chemical plant may be building on the graves of formerly enslaved people. We're saying "no." [caption align="right"] [/caption] RISE St. James, a faith-based grassroots community...
On Wednesday, February 10th, join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the New York Civil Liberties Union for a conversation about reimagining public safety by centering the communities most...
Updated: February 8, 2021
I. Overview of the Black Immigrant Population in the United States According to a report by Roselyn Berry for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Black people who immigrate to the United...
Updated: October 19, 2021
September 1, 2016Today marks one year since the settlement in CCR’s class-action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California , which ended indeterminate long-term solitary confinement in California state prisons. As a...
June 22, 2017The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders. “Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.” So...
On International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2018, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined with the Human Rights in the U.S. Project of the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute to submit...
Updated: November 18, 2019
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