On February 22nd, 2019, join Center for Constitutional Rights executive director, Vincent Warren , as he gives the keynote speech at "Reimagining the Criminal Justice System," a one-day symposium...
Updated: January 29, 2019
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...
Please join us in court on February 14th for a status conference in Aref v. Holder , Center for Constitutional Rights' longstanding case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication...
Updated: February 7, 2019
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...
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...
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
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...
Revolving Door: Former Head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Office, Now High-Level Official at Major Detention Contractor, Asks Court to Support Secrecy December 23, 2015, New York – In a Freedom of...
Highest Court Rejects Private Prisons’ Petition to Limit Release of Government Documents October 10, 2017, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court denied a petition by private prison corporations...
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