Procedures for Holding Men Under Strict Communications Restrictions Violate Due Process, Appeal Says April 7, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for men who had been imprisoned in secretive...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center for a preliminary injunction motion hearing in our case, Diamond v. Ward, et al. , before the U.S. District Court for the...
Updated: May 10, 2021
May 17, 2021...With my legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, I’m once again challenging my placement in a men’s prison, along with the GDC’s failure to keep me...
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
August 2, 2021Stop-and-frisk plaintiffs ask court to include community in monitorship program On Thursday, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits that challenged the New York City...
Immigrant rights attorneys will argue before U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT, urging the court to...
Updated: August 16, 2021
September 11, 2021...Advocates have called on Biden to consider alternatives to commission trials, including plea deals that could give prisoners credit for time served. Already, one prisoner, Majid Khan, is set to be...
Please join Hofstra Law's Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics on Tuesday, October 26, at 4:00 p.m. ET for a panel discussion commemorating the life of Michael Ratner...
Updated: September 22, 2021
In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, and in support of the Indigenous-led week of action People v. Fossil Fuels Oct. 11-15, join the Indigenous Environmental Network , The Red Nation , and the Center...
Updated: October 6, 2021
December 8, 2021, New York City has agreed to create dedicated shelter units for trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people in four boroughs by the end of 2022, among other provisions
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