June 19, 2017The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Muslim men detained after the Sept. 11 attacks can't sue top U.S. law enforcement officials. The justices by a 4-2 vote ended a long-running lawsuit against former...
February 3, 2020REJECTED! Court says no to Hunt & Polo member's case harassing the Ramapough Lenape Nation [caption align="right"] [/caption] A New Jersey court dismissed an attempt by Thomas Powers, a member of...
DEHUMANIZED A discussion of Special Administrative Measures (SAMS), solitary confinement, and some of the most devastating tools of the criminal justice system Confirmed speakers include: Syed Hashmi...
Updated: May 31, 2011
October 13, 2015A federal appeals court in Philadelphia Tuesday reinstated a civil rights lawsuit over the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims, ruling that claimed public safety and national security concerns did not...
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak alongside a distinguished panel of experts about race, social control, and punishment in the U.S. The panel will be part of a daylong symposium...
Updated: February 7, 2017
May 30, 2017Street stops by New York City police officers have plunged since 2011 and a new statistical analysis by a federal monitor concludes that the racial disparity in stops is narrowing. The analysis,...
April 5, 2018...Al-Darbi is the only prisoner who’s pleaded guilty in the military commissions at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, located on illegally-occupied Cuban territory. In a statement, the Center for...
April 24, 2019... the record shows that if these applicants can get enough public attention to their case, somehow, sometimes, the waiver gets mysteriously granted. That lays bare the dysfunctional implementation...
In this conversation, the last of a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19 , Samah Mcgona Sisay and Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Associate maya finoh discuss...
Updated: June 29, 2020
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