Mr. Cardenas Abreu was born in the Dominican Republic on February 17, 1979. He entered the United States as a lawful permanent resident at age 16 in 1996. His entire family, including his grandmother...
The federal government is paying $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants who sued over their detention and treatment in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11, when hundreds of noncitizens...
Long Island families represented by the CCR are seeking to prevail in a lawsuit that could result in the state returning to them tens of millions of dollars for what families say are exorbitant phone...
October13, 2009, Albany, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the legality of prison phone rates in oral arguments before the Court of Appeals of the State of New...
Issued October 2009 by the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice Introduction Starting in 1996 the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) contracted with MCI/Verizon to provide...
Defendants coming through Orleans Parish criminal court often don't receive an informed determination of whether police had evidence to justify their arrest, as required by federal and state law, the...
Profile of a mentally ill immigrant's unjustly prolonged detention. The CCR and other civil liberties advocates argue that certain protections, including the appointment of counsel to anyone with a...
Please join us Thursday September 24 th to volunteer at The Center for Constitutional Rights for a day. If you are interested, please contact An-Tuan Williams at [email protected] . Lunch will...
August 6, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), one of seven signatories to a letter sent yesterday to Janet Napolitano, Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security...
