Immigration detention centers are ticking time bombs in the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIP-NLG)...
Updated: April 14, 2020
Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Updated: August 7, 2020
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Amistad Law Project (ALP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (...
Updated: October 25, 2021
Black August 2021: Fighting for Freedom from the Inside Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial complex, who, with their vision...
Updated: August 26, 2021
We commemorate Black August in a time of collective grief, clarity, rage, and rebellion. Mighty waves of popular uprising against the ravages of white supremacy and anti-Black racism are flooding the...
Updated: July 31, 2020
July 10, 2020 Via electronic submission Committee on Public Safety California State Assembly Re: SB 1064 - SUPPORT Dear Committee Members, We write to share the Center for Constitutional Rights’...
Updated: August 4, 2020
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we believe in the transformative power of art and culture, and have long worked with artists, storytellers, and cultural institutions to not only reflect the...
Updated: August 26, 2021
The overlapping crises facing our global community are the result of generations of political decisions. And while we must collectively uproot oppressive ideologies and institutions, President Joe...
Updated: September 8, 2021
On September 20, 2021, twenty years after the U.S. declared its "War on Terror," Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Center for...
Updated: September 20, 2021
Kifah Jayyousi is a United States citizen who is married with five children and currently lives and works in Michigan. Kifah is a plaintiff in Aref v. Garland , a federal lawsuit filed in 2010...
Updated: October 14, 2021
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