Kayla Vinson (she/her) is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is a member of the Southern Regional Office, and her work focuses on supporting liberatory movements and...
Black August began in the 1970s to mark the assassination of incarcerated political prisoners like the revolutionary organizer and writer George Jackson during a prison rebellion in California. Black...
Updated: September 30, 2024
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney CJ Sandley will join a workshop at the National Lawyers Guild 2024 #Law4ThePeople Convention entitled Challenging Court Secrecy in Prison...
Updated: September 25, 2024
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney CJ Sandley will join a workshop at the National Lawyers Guild 2024 #Law4ThePeople Convention entitled Challenging Court Secrecy in Prison...
Updated: September 27, 2024
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Abolitionist Law Center, and Amistad Law Project at the oral argument in our case Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Derek Lee . This case aims to end the state...
Updated: September 27, 2024
On September 30, 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative sent a Special Communication Complaint to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery;...
Updated: September 30, 2024
Derek Lee argues the sentence for felony murder is unconstitutionally disproportionate and cruel Oct 8, 2024, Pittsburgh – The application of the felony murder rule, which holds liable for murder a...
“The very things that Trump will target – dissent, solidarity, and resistance – are our greatest strengths” November 6, 2024, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s apparent victory, Center for...
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
The intensification of anti-immigrant policies openly exposes the extreme discriminatory drift of the U.S. government. FIDH and the Center for Constitutional Rights warn the Trump administration that...
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