December 9, 2014, New York – Based on early reports on the release of the executive summary and the conclusions and findings of the Senate inquiry into the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, Center for...
September 7, 2015Prison administrators and inmate advocates agreed last week on one facet of the debate on solitary confinement: Prisons need to be more careful about putting people in “the hole.” On Tuesday,...
November 9, 2018Leading civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to end Donald Trump’s ban on people seeking asylum at the US border with Mexico because it violates US law. Starting on...
October 24, 2019...Darius Charney, who was lead counsel in the Floyd case representing the plaintiffs, said the NYPD have “a pathological resistance to acknowledging racial bias.” He mentioned a report released by...
August 25, 2023...As the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a coalition member, explained: "In August 2022, flooding shut down Jackson's main water treatment plant, leaving thousands without safe drinking...
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has announced he is resigning next month. Bratton was a lead advocate of the so-called broken windows theory that called for officers to crack down...
Updated: October 24, 2016
May 24, 2019...Two of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including lead plaintiff Anne White Hat, are protesters currently facing felony jail time. White Hat could be sentenced to as many as 10 years in prison for...
Today, December 8, 2005, in Washington, D.C., the Center for Constitutional Rights condemned what it views as a campaign of harassment and political persecution of former members of the Black Panther...
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
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