June 17, 2016In May, the nation’s two largest private prison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 percent increase over...
June 27, 2016Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, Diala Shamas , as she discusses the state of free speech on college campuses, and explores the Goldwater Institute’s Campus Free Speech Act,...
Updated: February 11, 2019
June 1, 2022...The landmark decision in the 2008 class-action lawsuit — a huge blow to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crime-fighting legacy — included hiring Zimroth, a private lawyer and former Manhattan...
August 5, 2022... Traditionally, the CCRB defers allegations of profiling and bias-based policing to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. But with over 3,400 complaints filed between 2014 to 2021, only four were...
June 7, 2023...Samah Sisay, a Center for Constitutional Rights lawyer who represented plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to Scheindlin’s ruling, said the Neighborhood Safety Teams should also be eliminated. “...
September 22, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
The Hill Blog - January 4, 2010 By Leili Kashani, CCR After the Flight 253 attack, does it still make sense to close Guantanamo? It is crucial to remember that the vast majority of the men at Guant...
Updated: January 11, 2010
CCR staff attorney Angelo Guisado will participate in a talk-back following the 4:30 p.m. screening of the documentary For Ahkeem . Beginning one year before the fatal police shooting of a Black...
Updated: October 13, 2017
CCR staff attorney Britney Wilson will participate in a talk-back following the 7:50 p.m. screening of the documentary For Ahkeem at Village East Cinema. You can purchase tickets here . Beginning one...
Updated: October 13, 2017
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