November 21, 2019... The practice stopped and frisked more than 684,000 people at its peak in 2011, ostensibly in many cases to search for illegal weapons. But the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights...
December 9, 2020...Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman in a men’s prison, is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) after she was sexually assaulted more than 14 times. Diamond, represented by the Center...
December 11, 2020...Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman in a men’s prison, is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) after she was sexually assaulted more than 14 times. Diamond, represented by the Center...
November 2014“We tortured some folks,” President Obama said recently. I was one of those folks, and today I am at the United Nations to confront the government responsible for torturing me. It is the first time...
December 11, 2020... The Center for Constitutional Rights is representing her in her second lawsuit along with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which handled the original case. Chinyere Ezie, an attorney with...
August 17, 2023...The Center for Constitutional Rights defined Black August as a time designated to commemorate and honor “the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial...
On Saturday, October 8, 2022, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative invite you to “ About Time ,” an exhibition of artwork by currently and formerly...
Updated: September 12, 2023
October 22, 2023...Adams was rebuffed by organizations that the New York City DSA chapter promoted, the New York City-based Center for Constitutional Rights and the City University of New York’s “CLEAR Project,”...
February 23, 2016President Barack Obama presented a four-point plan Tuesday to “close Guantanamo once and for all” the president said. The plan now lies in the control of Congress to approve the closure, or not. “...
December 11, 2020...“Being a woman in a men’s prison is a nightmare,” Diamond said in a statement. “I’ve been stripped of my identity. I never feel safe. Never. I experience sexual harassment on a daily basis, and...
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