Rights Groups Move to Stop Private Corporations from Intervening in Freedom of Information Lawsuit November 29, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Detention Watch...
Join CCR at the Supreme Court for oral argument in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ). CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will argue the case, urging the Supreme Court to affirm...
Updated: December 6, 2016
December 23, 2016To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
January 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin In 1979, author James Baldwin wrote a 30-page letter outlining a biography of slain civil...
Updated: February 1, 2017
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Corporations Cannot Stop Release of Government Documents February 8, 2017, New York – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal by private...
February 10, 2017...Also that September, California agreed to restrict its controversial practices of solitary confinement. The class action lawsuit was brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights, which alleged...
February 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will both join distinguished panels of legal experts as part of a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar with...
Updated: March 1, 2017
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren was invited to be part of a town hall meeting hosted by Jay Z...
Updated: March 13, 2017
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