Bio
Carl Takei is a former senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality. He litigated police practices; advanced the ACLU’s affirmative vision for reducing the role, power, presence and responsibilities of police in U.S. communities; and coordinated policing-related litigation and advocacy across multiple ACLU projects and centers.
Previously, Carl was a staff attorney at the , where he worked on prison privatization, immigration detention, and the intersection between the federal criminal justice system and immigration enforcement. He has also served as a staff attorney/Tony Dunn Foundation law fellow at the and as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Paul Barbadoro in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Carl holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from and an A.B. from .
Featured work
May 28, 2014
The U.S. Government Treats Detained Immigrants Like Slaves
May 20, 2014
Karma: Private Prison Company Throws Shade and Fails, Badly
Mar 14, 2014
Today in Disgusting: Getting Rich By Locking Up Grandpa
Feb 19, 2014
While My Grandfather Fought in WWII, My Grandmother Was Locked in a U.S. Concentration Camp
Sep 17, 2013
CCA At It Again: Held in Contempt for Understaffing Prison and Lying About It
Sep 6, 2013
New limits announced on ICE's solitary confinement of immigrants
Jul 9, 2013
Anonymous Exposes U.S.’s Biggest Private Prison Company As a Bad Financial Investment
Jun 20, 2013
Corrections Corporation of America Loses Four Prison Contracts This Month
May 24, 2013
Kanye West, "New Slaves" and a Long Tradition of Locking People Up for Profit