On February 22nd, 2019, join Center for Constitutional Rights executive director, Vincent Warren , as he gives the keynote speech at "Reimagining the Criminal Justice System," a one-day symposium...
Updated: January 29, 2019
Please join us as Center For Constitutional Rights advocacy program manager, Nahal Zamani , testifies before the New York City Council during an oversight hearing on the disciplinary practices of the...
Updated: February 4, 2019
Nadia Ben-Youssef is the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She directs all advocacy around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights. Together with the legal...
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Northeastern Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, NYU...
Updated: April 4, 2019
February 13, 2019The September 2015 day that Ashker v. Brown was settled, Dolores Canales’ son had been held in solitary confinement for 15 years. “It was such an emotional morning,” Canales, a founder of the...
February 14, 2019Claiming lasting damage from prison isolation units, two Muslim former federal inmates urged a federal judge Thursday to strike down the policy used against them as unconstitutional. Yassin Muhiddin...
The Center for Constitutional Rights Presents: Beautiful Uprisings: A round table conversation about the global Power of protest. [flyer] From Palestine to New York, we have born witness the power of...
Updated: March 20, 2023
April 1, 2019...CMUs are experimental social isolation units that were initially created in 2006 and 2008. As the Center for Constitutional Rights describes , “Individuals detained in the CMUs are completely...
April 18, 2019...Some reforms have been driven by actions from within prisons and litigation. For example, thousands of people held in Pelican Bay and other prisons in California participated in a series of hunger...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and ten other amici filed a brief of amicus curiae in support of appellee Adree Edmo. The brief argues that the appellate court should uphold the lower court's...
Updated: September 5, 2019
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