...The men who were isolated in the torturous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) for decades decided in 2011 to go on Hunger Strike after they had exhausted all other internal remedies to win...
On episode 39 of the Activist Files , Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Rafaela Uribe talks with Heena Sharma and Katrina Hamann-Azanov , two members of the Free Ashley Campaign...
... Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, faced off against the Law Department when he litigated the yearslong stop-and-frisk trial Floyd v. City of New York...
To commemorate Disability Pride Month, the Center for Constitutional Rights is honored to sponsor this important panel discussion and teach-in by our partners at Project LETS — a...
July 13, 2021, Newark, N.J. – Fifteen immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody today lodged a multi-individual complaint with the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Office...
Art by Oaklee Thiele, part of the Breaking Point Project. On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law after the tireless organizing of disability activists across...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a riveting celebration of the legacy of jailhouse lawyers, who fight for freedom from inside the prison-industrial complex. We are thrilled to be joined...
...A class action lawsuit ( Ashker v. Governor of California )—brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of a group of incarcerated people—led to a 2015 settlement that included...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild launched the Sixth Edition of the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook (JLH)—a free legal resource for prisoners and their family...
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...
