Convicted under an application of a “stacking” law that has since been amended, the first-time offender would get a 25-year sentence today November 9, 2021, New York – Today, a 51-year-old Black man...
Temporary restraining order seeks to safeguard rights during October 7 National March to Protect Trans Youth September 29, 2023 – Today, a group of trans and non-binary people asked a federal court...
December 15, 2009, New York – In response to the announcement today that the Obama administration would be transferring detainees from Guantánamo to the Thomson Correctional Center in...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint on behalf of the International Action Center and the Troops Out Now Coalition on Wednesday March 16 challenging the City’s policy of...
On February 27, 2006, The first violation of the McCain torture amendment was alleged in federal court in an emergency injunction to end further torture of Guantánamo detainees. The court made public...
A Superior Court Judge ruled against oil giant Unocal’s motion to apply Burmese and Bermuda law in the CCR case Doe v. Unocal. Unocal is accused of being complicit in human rights violations...
Anne White Hat is a member of the Aske Tiospaye (clan) of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate. The Sicangu Lakota are one of the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota Oyate (the Lakota Nation)...
Updated: September 7, 2021
May 27, 2020, New York – In response to the killing of another unarmed Black man by the hands of police, Vince Warren , executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, issued the...
In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
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