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Allison Frankel

Equal Justice Works Fellow, ACLU Human Rights Program and Criminal Law Reform Project

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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.


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