Carl Takei is a Staff Attorney at the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. He litigates prison conditions class action suits in federal court and performs state-based advocacy against overincarceration, including fighting unnecessary jail expansion projects and working to stop modern-day debtors’ prison practices in local courts and jails.
Previously, he served as a Staff Attorney/Tony Dunn Foundation Law Fellow at the ACLU of the Nation’s Capital 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 Boston College Law School and an A.B. from Brown University.
Carl’s writings have been published in The Boston Globe and the Boston College Law Review, and he has co-written articles for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and The Boston Phoenix. Carl has made radio appearances on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU, Kenny Barnes’ “Spirit in Action” on WPFW, and Roach Brown’s “Cross Roads” on WPFW.
Before moving to the District of Columbia, Carl served on on the Board of the ACLU of Massachusetts and the Board of the New England chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. During his tenure on the ACLUM Board, Carl helped plan the Bill of Rights Education Project’s middle school/high school Bill of Rights curriculum and was active in the ACLUM’s post-9/11 speakers bureau.
