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...
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...
April 25, 2019...The state’s definitions of prohibited material therefore may not be constitutional because it “could ban… access to legitimate art, literature and other publications”, including a medical journal...
False Information Created by Bureau of Prisons Continues to Affect Released Prisoners, Must Be Expunged W ashington, D.C., May 10, 2019 – Today, two men formerly imprisoned in federal Communications...
Join us for an important opening conversation in a new series called "Urban on Stage with Left Forum" at Parson New School at 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 28. Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: June 5, 2019
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