Nineteen year old incarcerated at East Carroll Detention Center.
Since our inception in the 1960’s, when our attorneys defended protestors at the Chicago Democratic National Convention, CCR has been at the forefront of criminal justice issues such as mass incarceration, jail expansion, and challenging unjust detentions. In a country that puts more people in jail than any other country in the world, we will continue to fight the mass incarceration of millions in our nation’s prison system, as well as challenge practices such as racial profiling, immigrant detention, and discriminatory laws that lead to a disproportionate number of people of color behind bars.
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When: Thursday, January 5, 2012 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm Where: The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street…
Prepared for the 9th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, this video accompanies the position paper entitled “The US Tortures Before it Kills: An Examination of the Death Row Experience from a Human Rights Perspective,” which analyzes…
Amici consist of community groups, civil rights organizations, and immigrant justice organizations. They contend that the Second Circuit has both violated the ordinary remand rule and, in doing so, interfered with the Ragbir’s fundamental right…
Doe, et al. v. Jindal, et al. is a federal lawsuit filed against state officials in Louisiana, challenging the fact that a Crime Against Nature conviction requires registration as a sex offender on the state…
Mark the shameful 10th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and to call for an end to all unjust detentions, we will be creating a human chain between the White House and the Capitol. Sign-up, spread… Read More >>
Details below are for January 7th. Please click here for January 5th. Read More >>
In 1999, CCR filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to challenge the NYPD’s policy of conducting stop-and-frisks without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity as required by the Fourth Amendment.… Read More >>
Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, an African American serving a life sentence in the custody of the New York, challenged the Section 5-106 under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read More >>
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