CCR senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol will be speaking at the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) Prison Law 2017 webinar. This PLI program is designed for lawyers who represent incarcerated persons...
Updated: October 13, 2017
October 12, 2017FALLS CHURCH, Va. ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions broadly accused immigrants of lying to attain asylum Thursday, claiming that “dirty immigration lawyers,” along with “rampant abuse and fraud,”...
The Thomas Merton Center (TMC) will be honoring CCR's work at its annual awards dinner. Executive director Vince Warren will speak at the event. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased here . TMC works...
Updated: October 13, 2017
CCR staff attorney Britney Wilson will participate in a talk-back following the 7:50 p.m. screening of the documentary For Ahkeem at Village East Cinema. You can purchase tickets here . Beginning one...
Updated: October 13, 2017
Rutgers Law school is hosting a panel discussion featuring CCR Bertha Justice fellow Stephanie Llanes . The event is free and open to the public. Speakers include: Professor Charles Auffant, Rutgers...
Updated: October 13, 2017
October 16, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
October 18, 2017Today, CCR staff members are among the hundreds marching in the national #NoMuslimBanEver mobilization in DC, from the White House to the Trump Hotel. While we celebrate that yesterday a federal...
October 18, 2017The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of a Kansas public school teacher who, as a condition for taking her job, was required under a new state law to declare...
President Trump’s latest attempt to bar some citizens of eight Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. suffers a second defeat, as another federal judge rules that the latest policy is...
Updated: October 19, 2017
October 20, 2017A court-appointed monitor overseeing changes for the New York Police Department has asked a judge to enshrine a new evaluation system for officers that de-emphasizes the number of street stops they...
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