Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Updated: August 7, 2020
On June 8, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile, together with over 600 rights groups led by the...
Updated: June 8, 2020
We honor Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States—by envisioning a world freer than the one in which we currently live. Each year since the June 19, 1865 reading...
Updated: June 17, 2020
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Office of the Governor PO Box 94004 Baton Rouge, LA 70804 June 15, 2020 Re: Black Leaders Support RISE St. James' Demand for a Moratorium on Petrochemical Industry...
Updated: June 15, 2020
We honor the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the U.S.—by envisioning a world more free than the one in which we currently live. We remember our elders...
Updated: June 13, 2020
On June 22, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights—along with a coalition of other civil rights organizations—released an open letter demanding that Colin Mattis and Urooj Rahman be released...
Updated: July 30, 2020
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Amistad Law Project (ALP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (...
Updated: October 25, 2021
Black August 2021: Fighting for Freedom from the Inside Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial complex, who, with their vision...
Updated: August 26, 2021
We commemorate Black August in a time of collective grief, clarity, rage, and rebellion. Mighty waves of popular uprising against the ravages of white supremacy and anti-Black racism are flooding the...
Updated: July 31, 2020
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we believe in the transformative power of art and culture, and have long worked with artists, storytellers, and cultural institutions to not only reflect the...
Updated: August 26, 2021
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