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CCR Statement on Scheduled Troy Davis Execution

September 15, 2011

Read the complete letter. CCR writes to ask you to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Capital punishment, as it is applied in the United States, is expensive, racist, arbitrary, fallible...

Clergy Sex Victims File International Criminal Court Complaint Case Charges Vatican Officials with ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

September 13, 2011

September 13, 2011 – A survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims today formally urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to investigate the Vatican for crimes...

Court Allows Challenge to Louisiana’s Discriminatory and Archaic “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” Law to Proceed

September 8, 2011

September 8, 2011, New York – Plaintiffs challenging the discriminatory requirement that they must register as sex offenders because of a Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) conviction...

CCR Says NYC Must Act Immediately to Protect Prisoners at Rikers Island from Hurricane Irene

August 27, 2011

August 27, 2011, New York – Today, in response to news not only that Mayor Bloomberg announced the City of New York does not plan to evacuate the 12,000 prisoners at Rikers Island in advance of...

CCR and NLG Release Newly Expanded and Updated Edition of Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook and Launch New Website

August 18, 2011

New York, August 11 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights, in partnership with the National Lawyers Guild, launched an interactive website to supplement the release of the Fifth Edition...

U.S. Forced to Release New “Embarrassing” Documents On Controversial Secure Communities Program

August 18, 2011

New York, August 18, 2011- In the wake of protests and civil disobedience in Chicago yesterday and across the country criticizing the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program,...

Authoritative National Report Condemns Secure Communities Program

August 16, 2011

Authoritative National Report Condemns Secure Communities Program Law Enforcement Experts and Victims of S-Comm Conclude Program Should Be Ended August 16, 2011, New York and Washington – Today...

Groups Ask Court to Remove Individuals Convicted of Crime Against Nature by Solicitation from Sex Offender Registry

August 10, 2011

August 10, 2011, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law...

One Year after Arrest and Detention, CCR Legal Observer to Arizona Immigration Protest Files Suit against Maricopa County, Sherr

July 29, 2011

July 29, 2011, Phoenix and New York – Last night, a year after Sunita Patel, a civil rights attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, was arrested while documenting law enforcement...

CCR Joins Amicus in Case Challenging DNA Sampling of Arrestees

July 26, 2011

July 26, 2011, New York – Yesterday, CCR joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups to file a brief of amicus curiae in the case, United States v...

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Press Releases

CCR Statement on Scheduled Troy Davis Execution

Clergy Sex Victims File International Criminal Court Complaint Case Charges Vatican Officials with ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Court Allows Challenge to Louisiana’s Discriminatory and Archaic “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” Law to Proceed

CCR Says NYC Must Act Immediately to Protect Prisoners at Rikers Island from Hurricane Irene

CCR and NLG Release Newly Expanded and Updated Edition of Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook and Launch New Website

U.S. Forced to Release New “Embarrassing” Documents On Controversial Secure Communities Program

Authoritative National Report Condemns Secure Communities Program

Groups Ask Court to Remove Individuals Convicted of Crime Against Nature by Solicitation from Sex Offender Registry

One Year after Arrest and Detention, CCR Legal Observer to Arizona Immigration Protest Files Suit against Maricopa County, Sherr

CCR Joins Amicus in Case Challenging DNA Sampling of Arrestees

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