..."If you look at the data over these many years, it clearly shows the police department is not accurate in saying that the do it everywhere. The overwhelming majority is being done in...
On July 8, 2013, more than 30,000 incarcerated men and women across California began refusing to eat . It was the start of the nation’s largest-ever prison hunger strike, and for some the fasting...
...Twenty-six prisoners at Guantánamo remain detained without charge or trial, including the eight men represented in court Wednesday, who have been at Guantánamo between 10 and 16 years. Two of them...
...It’s good to keep these facts in mind, as the Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a new legal challenge in federal court to free the remaining terrorists at Gitmo. ... Read the full piece...
Guantánamo: there have to be limits, detainees must be released [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last Wednesday, we argued before a federal judge in Washington D.C. to challenge Donald Trump's...
Cohort will be working in the Legal and Communications Departments July 17, 2018, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomed 14 interns this summer: 12 are in the Ella Baker Summer...
July 17, 2018, New York – Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and...
...Vincent Warren , Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights “Two central questions that are likely to be raised in the near future are whether a sitting president can be indicted,...
...“So if we have 100 years of war,” as there were between France and England in the 14 th – 15 th centuries, Judge Hogan asked, “can these same detainees be held that whole time?” “Yes, your honor...
Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters July 19, 2018, New York — Today, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin recording all police-citizen...