Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) prisoners have organized to combat cruel conditions of confinement, and…
June 12, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and co-counsel issued…
June 12, 2013, New Orleans – Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed…
August 17, 2012, New York – In response today’s ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and unreliable key portions of the proposed testimony of New York City’s key witness in a class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices, Floyd et al. v. City of New York, et al., Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren issued the following statement:
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.
