Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Abolitionist Law Center, and Amistad Law Project at the oral argument in our case Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Derek Lee . This case aims to end the state...
Updated: September 27, 2024
May 2014The FBI has used the No Fly List to coerce American Muslims into spying on their community. In mid-April, after an eight-year, "Kafkaesque" ordeal implicating its vast architecture of official...
Updated: September 30, 2014
August 30, 2023...The ruling undermines the 2015 settlement the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDRC) and prisoners had instituted, agreeing to the hours one can be in solitary confinement...
June 5, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to breaking news first published in The Guardian showing a secret Foreign...
August 7, 2015The NYPD said Friday it would implement the recommendations of a police monitor to give better guidance to its patrol officers on when they can detain and question people on the street. Monitor Peter...
September 1, 2015California will put an end to the practice of keeping prisoners in solitary confinement for decades because of gang affiliation, under a proposed legal settlement announced Tuesday. The settlement,...
October 8, 2015W hen Palestinian-American professor Steven Salaita received the e-mail that he was being fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was crushed. “Everything...
January 15, 2016Muslims are duly noting New York City’s recent settlement of two high-profile civil rights lawsuits challenging the city’s police surveillance in North Jersey, but a similar suit in New Jersey will...
February 23, 2016U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement Tuesday that he would push forward plans to shut down the controversial U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was welcomed by human...
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