Bio
Carl Takei is a former senior staff attorney at the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥â€™s Trone Center for Justice and Equality. He litigated police practices; advanced the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥â€™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 ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ 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 ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ 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