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
Aug 13, 2010
Reasonable Doubt
Aug 13, 2010
A Beacon for Liberty and Justice
Aug 11, 2010
Making History
Aug 10, 2010
What We Stand For
Jul 13, 2010
A System Designed to Produce Convictions, Not Justice
May 12, 2010
Pentagon Should Reverse Gitmo Reporter Ban
May 8, 2010
Interrogator One
May 7, 2010
The Monster of Bagram
May 5, 2010
Taxi to the Dark Side
May 3, 2010
Enough is Enough