Rhonda Copelon was a force of nature and a CCR institution. As an early staff member and longtime Board member, Rhonda blazed the trail for countless people’s lawyers and social justice...
Updated: February 11, 2011
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room 503 Brooklyn Law School’s American Constitution Society Presents: Stop and Frisk in New York A panel discussion with Sunita Patel , Staff Attorney from the Center for...
Updated: March 29, 2012
“The best way for the American people to send a message to the Bush administration and the world that ‘we the people’ of the United States do not condone torture is to mobilize to reject the...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
Updated: October 18, 2018
“At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.”—Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do...
Updated: July 22, 2010
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 1, 2015. We’ll discuss secret detention and torture, in fiction and reality. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be joined by author Ellen Meeropol...
Updated: June 24, 2015
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
February 18, 2021...The new administration has the power to immediately end this politically motivated policy conceived by a white supremacist extremist , as well as other policies by the previous administration...
August 6, 2009, Ottawa and New York – Human rights organizations are calling on the Canadian government to investigate retired U.S. Army colonel and psychologist Dr. Larry C. James, a former...
In 2006 and 2008, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) created Communications Management Units (CMUs), prison units designed to isolate and segregate certain prisoners in the federal prison system...
Updated: October 14, 2021
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