September 2, 2015Reform groups are hoping a landmark settlement to effectively end indefinite solitary confinement in California state prisons will soon spread. "There is still much work to be done to end solitary...
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,...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Legal Worker Ian Head will lead an hour-long webinar training on how to file federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and the state and local...
Updated: November 17, 2015
April 4, 2016The legal challenge against Michigan’s emergency manager law on claims that it racially discriminates has only been bolstered by the Flint water crisis, according to the head of a national civil...
More than a decade after graphic images of the American-run prison camp Abu Ghraib in Iraq were leaked, four of the cleared detainees are finally getting their day in court. But will accountability...
Updated: April 7, 2017
June 29, 2016The so-called "guaranteed minimums" assure that a specific number of detainees will be held in captivity at all times at the for-profit ran institutions. "Guaranteed minimums, which appear mostly in...
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
September 22, 2016... D arius Charney , lead counsel in the aforementioned class action lawsuit against NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy and senior staff attorney at CCR, suggested the practice would not be helpful in...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join a panel of legal experts to discuss the recent travel restrictions on travelers from Muslim-majority countries. The discussion will also include: Faiza Patel...
Updated: April 25, 2017
April 21, 2017...Darius Charney, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the lead lawyer in the initial case, Floyd v. City of New York , which challenged stop-and-frisk practices of the New York...
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