Bio
Allison Frankel is an Equal Justice Works Fellow (sponsored by Venture Justice Fund) with the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project and Human Rights Program, where she focuses on overhauling oppressive probation and parole systems. Allison previously served as the Aryeh Neier Fellow with Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, where she authored a report, Revoked: How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the United States. She formerly challenged unlawful restrictions on sex-offense registrants as a fellow with the Center for Appellate Litigation, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Andrew L. Carter, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. Allison is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Featured work
Mar 18, 2013
"Zero-Tolerance" on Trafficking Must Mean What It Says
Mar 6, 2013
ACLU, in Geneva, Advocates Against Death Penalty, Solitary Confinement
Feb 6, 2013
U.S. Violating Human Rights of Children, Says U.N. Committee
Jan 24, 2013
U.N. Human Rights Expert to Investigate U.S. Targeted Killing Program
Dec 18, 2012
Does U.S. Immigration Policy Respect Human Rights?
Dec 13, 2012
European Court: U.S. Extraordinary Rendition “Amounted to Torture”
Dec 8, 2012
New Government Report Reveals Over 200 Children Have Been Held in U.S. Custody in Afghanistan Since 2008
Nov 12, 2012
International Organization Finds U.S. Violating the Rights of Protestors
Sep 20, 2012
Italian Court Upholds Rendition Conviction of CIA Agents
Sep 7, 2012
Seeking a Second Chance: Children Sentenced to Life Without Parole Seek Justice Before International Tribunal
