Bio
Jennifer Turner () is the principal human rights researcher in the ACLU’s Human Rights Program. She conducts documentation research and advocacy on human rights violations in the United States, with a focus on criminal justice, policing, national security, racial justice, women’s rights, children’s rights, and immigrants’ rights. She is the author of numerous ACLU reports, including , on life without parole sentences for nonviolent offenses; Island of Impunity, which documents police brutality and failure to police domestic and sexual violence in Puerto Rico; and Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity, on how terrorism financing policies undermine Muslims’ religious freedom and chill charitable giving. She also carries out advocacy before the U.N. Human Rights Council, human rights treaty monitoring bodies and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and monitors military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Jennifer was a fellow in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where she researched and reported on abuses against Asian migrant domestic workers in the Middle East. She has also worked in the asylum program of Human Rights First assisting refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. to obtain pro bono legal representation. Jennifer is a graduate of Yale University and New York University Law School.
Featured work
Jun 14, 2018
Alice Marie Johnson Talks About Her Life Sentence, Getting Clemency, and Her Newfound Freedom
Mar 6, 2018
When Prosecutors and Debt Collection Companies Become Business Partners
Feb 21, 2018
Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System
Sep 25, 2015
The Fight Against Mass Incarceration Goes Global
Jun 24, 2014
US Admits Modern-Day Slavery Exists at Home
Jul 18, 2013
VICTORY! Historic Agreement Will Overhaul Puerto Rico Police Department Notorious for Brutality
Oct 1, 2012
California Gives Hope to Child Offenders Sentenced to Die in Prison