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
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