September 22, 2023...“It’s a reasonable fear that CDCR will backslide in a number of ways without that oversight,” CJ Sandley, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Truthout. “That’s why we felt...
October 5, 2023...“While BPD has claimed to have instituted measures in recent years to mitigate implicit bias and to end its tolerance of misconduct, a historical throughline of racial animus and injustice appears...
Center for Constitutional Rights is accompanying three delegations, joining dozens of U.S. civil society orgs in calling for accountability October 12, 2023, Geneva – For the first time in nine years...
October 18, 2023, Geneva, Switzerland – Today, members of U.S. Civil Society turned their backs in silent protest of the U.S. delegation during the closing remarks given by U.S. Ambassador Michele...
Join CUNY Law: Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession and the W. Haywood Burns Chair in Human and Civil Rights for a panel discussion among contributors of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated...
Updated: October 20, 2023
October 22, 2023...According to CDCR’s latest records, from June 2023 , there were 3,167 people in segregated confinement in California. The number is a major reduction from levels of a decade ago. According to the...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, together with NYU Review of Law & Social Change, NYU’s Ending the Prison Industrial Complex, and NYU’s National Lawyers Guild Chapter, are...
Updated: October 23, 2023
October 28, 2023...Expanding Indigenous rights and ending extreme sentencing practices were central themes at this year's review of the United States by the UN Human Rights Committee, with the case of Leonard...
October 28, 2023...Racial profiling, police violence, mass incarceration and drone killings are among the wide array of abuses UN experts have raised at a review of US civil and political rights policies in Geneva...
November 2, 2023...The United Nations often focuses on capital punishment when assessing countries' human rights records, but this year's Human Rights Committee review of the US shone a light on "the other death...
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