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Carl Takei

Former Senior Staff Attorney

ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality

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 ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµprojects 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

The U.S. Government Treats Detained Immigrants Like Slaves

May 20, 2014

Karma: Private Prison Company Throws Shade and Fails, Badly

Karma: Private Prison Company Throws Shade and Fails, Badly

Mar 27, 2014

Assembly-Line Injustice

Assembly-Line Injustice

Mar 14, 2014

Today in Disgusting: Getting Rich By Locking Up Grandpa

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kanye West, New Slaves and a Long Tradition of Locking People Up for Profit