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 6, 2013
Two Weeks of Protests Start Tomorrow! 30 Years of For-Profit Prisons Is Nothing to Celebrate
Apr 3, 2013
Shocking Video from Maine Prison Shows a Restrained Prisoner Being Tortured with Pepper Spray
Apr 2, 2013
VICTORY! Students Triumph over Private Prison Company’s Bid to Name College Football Stadium
Mar 4, 2013
Private Prison Company Doctors Its Own Wikipedia Page and Fabricates Facts to Fight Bad Publicity
Feb 21, 2013
Sponsoring a Florida College Football Team Can’t Whitewash a Private Prison Company’s Atrocious Record
Jan 29, 2013
Happy Birthday to the Corrections Corporation of America? Thirty Years of Banking on Bondage Leaves Little to Celebrate
Jul 3, 2012
Courts Should Stop Jailing People for Being Poor
Feb 3, 2012
PBS' "Perpetuating Stigma" Highlights HIV Criminalization
Dec 1, 2011
On World AIDS Day, Many Living with HIV Being Kept Separate and Unequal
Feb 4, 2011
The $270 Million Lockup: Will New Orleans' Sheriff Stand in the Way of Rebuilding a Smaller and Smarter Orleans Parish Prison?