Civil Rights Corps

We're hiring: Investigative Fellows - Summer 2026 Investigative Fellows work collaboratively with case teams in support of complex civil rights litigation in federal and state courts. Their work varies and pulls on the skills of an investigator and paralegal, and will often involve working closely with and supporting local organizers and their campaigns. They are a crucial part of our impact litigation and advocacy challenging mass human caging and other injustices within the criminal legal system. This is an entry-level two-year position at CRC. Deadline: Rolling with priority for applications submitted before October 29, 2025 Learn more on our website: civilrightscorps.org/join-our-team

📣 WE'RE HIRING: Investigative Fellows

🗓️ Start date: Summer 2026
🗓️ Application deadline: Rolling with priority for applications submitted before October 29, 2025

🔗 Learn more about the position: civilrightscorps.org/investigativ...

We're Hiring: Summer 2026 Litigation Interns (2L) Summer interns will have a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge civil rights cases in a fast-paced environment. Interns will work closely with Civil Rights Corps staff to investigate and challenge systemic injustice in the criminal legal system. Deadline: Rolling with priority for applications submitted before September 8, 2025 Learn more on our website: civilrightscorps.org/join-our-team

We're looking for Summer 2026 Litigation Interns! Learn more about the internship and find out how to apply here: civilrightscorps.org/summer-2026-litigation-interns-2l/

We are @civrightscorps.bsky.social have pioneered landmark constitutional challenges to the unsafe and unjust cash bail system for a decade. Our work saves lives, protects liberty, and is more important than ever.

White text on a blue background reading: copaganda how police and the media manipulate our news a discussion with Alec Karakatsanis September 18, 2025, 6-9pm

Toronto! Join the Community Justice Collective on Sept 18th for a conversation about Copaganda with @equalityalec.bsky.social, lawyer, author, and founder of @civrightscorps.bsky.social
Tickets and more info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/copaganda-...

Breaking through the Noise: Telling Our Stories about Family & Safety How can we reclaim the media narrative around the child welfare system, and discuss real safety options for families? Featuring: Alexis Taylor, Managing Editor, AFRO News Natasha Khalfani, Senior Attorney, MD Office of the Public Defender, Better Together Program Sam Collins, Staff Writer, Washington Informer Event details: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 6:00 - 7:30 PM The Food Project, 424 S Pulaski St, Baltimore, MD 21223 RSVP: bit.ly/mediawrkshp

Join us Aug 20th for a discussion on how we can breakthrough the noise and reclaim the media narrative around the child welfare system!

🗓️ Aug 20th
⏰ 6-7:30 PM
📍424 S Pulaski St, Baltimore

🔗 RSVP here: bit.ly/mediawrkshp

Artists-in-Residence - Civil Rights Corps

Learn more about our current and former artists- and poets-in-residence here: civilrightscorps.org/artists-in-residence

Introducing William Anderson, Poet-in-Residence William is a Playwright-Poet-Orator-Emcee who wields his pen for the purpose of reclaiming his agency, by giving voice to the lives and to the plights of African Americans and other marginalized people of color, while achieving catharsis through self-expression. He is currently serving a 27-to-life sentence in an Ohio Correctional Facility and uses his time to create and to implement programming he and his comrades need for personal growth and development beyond incarceration.

William is a Playwright-Poet-Orator-Emcee who wields his pen for the purpose of reclaiming his agency, by giving voice to the lives and to the plights of African Americans and other marginalized people of color, while achieving catharsis through self-expression.

Introducing Kenneth W. Webb, Artist-in-Residence Kenneth is a multidisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, and cultural architect whose work bridges visual art, movement, and conceptual storytelling. Rooted in an expansive creative practice, Webb challenges dominant narratives and reimagines systems of power through painting, performance, and community-based initiatives. His art is deeply influenced by personal and collective histories, centering themes of resilience, identity, and transformation.

Kenneth is a multidisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, and cultural architect whose work bridges visual art, movement, and conceptual storytelling. His art is deeply influenced by personal and collective histories, centering themes of resilience, identity, and transformation.

introducing April Lee, Poet-in-residence April Lee is a dedicated community activist based in Philadelphia, committed to supporting families affected by harmful systems, including the child welfare (family policing) system, the carceral system, and other structures that negatively impact her community. Beyond her activism, she has a deep passion for writing and has performed her poetry on numerous stages throughout Philadelphia and beyond.

April is a dedicated community activist based in Philadelphia, committed to supporting families affected by harmful systems. She has a deep passion for writing and has performed her poetry on numerous stages throughout Philadelphia and beyond.

Meet our 2025 Artists-in-residence April Lee Kenneth Webb William Anderson

Meet our 2025 Artists-in-residence 👉🏽 April Lee, Kenneth Webb, and William Anderson!

We’re hiring! Externally funded legal fellow Civil Rights Corps seeks a law school graduate or licensed attorney to sponsor as an externally funded Legal Fellow, beginning in Fall 2025. Once selected, CRC will work closely with the candidate to submit project proposals to funding organizations that are able to evaluate fellowship applications on an expedited basis. Deadline: Rolling with priority for applications submitted before July 21, 2025 LEARN MORE ON OUR WEBSITE: civilrightscorps.org/join-our-team

Civil Rights Corps is hiring an externally funded legal fellow to start in Fall 2025. Learn more here 👉🏽 civilrightscorps.org/externally-funded-legal-fellow-fall-2025/

We’re hiring! Externally funded legal fellow Civil Rights Corps seeks a law school graduate or licensed attorney to sponsor as an externally funded Legal Fellow, beginning in Fall 2025. Once selected, CRC will work closely with the candidate to submit project proposals to funding organizations that are able to evaluate fellowship applications on an expedited basis. Deadline: Rolling with priority for applications submitted before July 21, 2025 LEARN MORE ON OUR WEBSITE: civilrightscorps.org/join-our-team

Civil Rights Corps is hiring an externally funded legal fellow to start in Fall 2025. Learn more here 👉🏽 civilrightscorps.org/externally-funded-legal-fellow-fall-2025/

BREAKING 🚨 In a move that protects financial interests and ignores the law and will of Congress, the FCC just delayed the implementation of new regulations that would lower prison and jail call rates by 2 years. The rules were set to save families over $500 million per year. Shameful.

Riverside County ‘cash bail’ illegally keeps poor people in jail, new lawsuit says Riverside County's cash bail system unconstitutionally keeps poor people in jail while those with money can buy their way out, a lawsuit claims.

You can read more about the case here. www.yahoo.com/news/riversi...

This marks the latest case in our series of civil rights lawsuits for the last decade that have freed 100,000s of people from illegal jailing. Wealth-based jailing separates families, destroys lives, causes catastrophic financial harm to communities, and makes everyone less safe.

THREAD. It is an honor to announce that we have just sued the Riverside Sheriff, Riverside County, and the Riverside Superior Court in a landmark case challenging the constitutionality of jailing presumed innocent people solely because they cannot pay cash bail.

New Case Faith leaders, detained people, and civil rights groups file lawsuit challenging Riverside County's bail process

🧵 NEW CASE: Faith leaders, detained people, and civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Riverside County's Bail Process.

What: Lawsuit
Where: Riverside County, CA
Issue: Bail, Pretrial Detention

Civil rights groups sue to end cash bail in Riverside County, alleging dangerous jail conditions A class-action lawsuit seeks to end Riverside County's use of a cash bail system to detain people awaiting trial, alleging high death rates and squalid conditions in the county jails.

And in the @latimes.com. 13/ www.latimes.com/california/s...

Civil rights groups sue Riverside County, claiming bail system targets those ‘too poor to purchase their freedom’ The lawsuit seeks to implement zero bail in Riverside County.

Read more in @pressenterprise.bsky.social. 12/ www.pressenterprise.com/2025/05/31/l...

"...Their goal in this case is simple: put a stop to senseless cash-based jailing and unconstitutional hearing delays in Riverside." - Salil Dudani, Civil Rights Corps 11/

"Our clients have been separated from their families, their jobs, and their lives for days not because anyone has found them too dangerous to release, but simply because they cannot afford the price of release..." 10/

These people are legally innocent and many of them will never be charged with a crime or will be released when they finally see a judge. 9/

The lawsuit also alleges that people arrested in Riverside County are routinely denied their constitutional right to a prompt hearing – often being jailed up to five, sometimes six, days without a hearing. 8/

"Keeping people in jail simply because their families can’t afford to pay cash bail destabilizes their lives, separates them from their loved ones, and subjects them to dangerous and inhumane conditions, while doing nothing to protect public safety." -Brian Hardingham, @publicjustice.bsky.social 7/

Challenging the Los Angeles Bail Schedule - Civil Rights Corps Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles. CRC and co-counsel brought suit in California Superior Court in November 2022 on behalf of several individuals who had been jailed for five days simply because they cou...

Also, contrary to popular belief cash bail polices actually increase crime. In fact, in our nearly identical case in Los Angeles, the Court noted that all evidence points towards pretrial detention being criminogenic. 6/ civilrightscorps.org/case/urquidi...

Cash-based bail policies like those in Riverside County are not just unconstitutional. They cause devastating harm to people’s lives – people often lose their jobs, housing, and even custody of their children. 5/

Per the complaint, Riverside County engages in this practice despite the fact that California courts have repeatedly found it to be unconstitutional. 4/

The lawsuit alleges that legally innocent people in Riverside County are routinely jailed up to five days solely because they cannot afford to buy their freedom by paying the preset cash bail amount. 3/

Last week, people detained in Riverside County jails filed a lawsuit challenging the use of cash bail when jailing people between their arrest & first court hearing, as well as Riverside’s unnecessary delay of that hearing. They were joined by Rabbi David Lazar & Reverend Jane Quandt. 2/

New Case Faith leaders, detained people, and civil rights groups file lawsuit challenging Riverside County's bail process

🧵 NEW CASE: Faith leaders, detained people, and civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Riverside County's Bail Process.

What: Lawsuit
Where: Riverside County, CA
Issue: Bail, Pretrial Detention