The NYPD said Friday it would implement the recommendations of a police monitor to give better guidance to its patrol officers on when they can detain and question people on the street. Monitor Peter...
The court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy has made his final recommendations. Peter Zimroth submitted two policy changes to a judge. One prohibits stops based...
This month, as part of our Freedom Flicks monthly series, the Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights invites you to a free screening of If a Tree Falls: A Story of the...
Omar Farah Attorney for detainee, Tariq Ba Odah, continues his push to free his client for medical safety. Trouble viewing the video? Watch on Al Jazeera
There is not a little poetic justice in the fact that it was precisely at the time that a federal judge ruled that Steven Salaita's lawsuit against the University of Illinois could go forward,...
Since the age of 23, Tariq Ba-Odah has been detained at the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. Never charged with a crime, Ba-Odah went on hunger strike eight years ago to protest his indefinite...
Before midnight on Friday, President Barack Obama's Justice Department is due to either block or accept a legal request to free a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who weighs 74 pounds (33.5 kg) after an eight...
The U.S. military said Thursday that it is committed to “a fair and equitable process” in the case of national security leaker Chelsea Manning and other prisoners accused of breaking rules at the...
In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield's murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten...
