Bio
Allison Frankel is a Staff Attorney with the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project (CLRP). She previously served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow with CLRP and the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, and as the Aryeh Neier Fellow with the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, where she authored a report, Revoked: How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the United States. Prior to joining the ACLU, Allison 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
Sep 29, 2022
Three People Share How Ankle Monitoring Devices Fail, Harm, and Stigmatize
May 16, 2022
Politicians Have No Place Making Parole Decisions for Young People
Mar 26, 2014
Only in America: 16-Year-Old Locked Up for the Rest of His Life
Oct 10, 2013
Prosecution Is Not the Way to Save a 10-Year-Old Child
Jul 31, 2013
New Information About CIA Extraordinary Rendition Program Highlights Need For Transparency, Accountability
Jun 21, 2013
Efforts to Close Guantánamo Must Be Accompanied By an End to Force-Feeding
Jun 7, 2013
U.N. Human Rights Report Foreshadows Recent Surveillance Revelations
Apr 10, 2013
U.S. Must Work to End Human Trafficking, Modern-Day Slavery on Government Contracts
Apr 5, 2013
International Human Rights Body Seeking Answers on U.S. Civil and Political Rights Record