{"id":2151,"date":"2012-08-23T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletters.asucollegeoflaw.com\/ilp\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2014-10-08T23:25:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T23:25:58","slug":"job-posting-staff-counsel-cj-05-american-civil-liberties-union-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsletters.asucollegeoflaw.com\/ilp\/2012\/08\/23\/job-posting-staff-counsel-cj-05-american-civil-liberties-union-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Posting: STAFF COUNSEL [CJ-05] AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Career Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n

STAFF COUNSEL [CJ-05]<\/strong><\/p>\n

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Center for Justice, New York or Washington, DC<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation<\/strong> (ACLU), founded in 1920, is a nationwide, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with more than 500,000 members and is dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality embodied in the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0The Center for Justice<\/strong> of the ACLU\u2019s National Office seeks a full-time Staff Counsel<\/strong> who will focus on juvenile justice reform.<\/strong>\u00a0This position will be based in New York, NY or in Washington, D.C. It is a two year position with the possibility of extension contingent on further funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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OVERVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The ACLU\u2019s Center for Justice<\/strong> seeks to transform the U.S. criminal justice system into one that views incarceration as an option of last \u2013 not first \u2013 resort.\u00a0The Center works to ensure that our criminal justice system is effective, fair, and free of racial bias; that conditions of confinement are humane and constitutional; and that the death penalty is rejected as a legitimate form of punishment.\u00a0The Center comprises the Criminal Law Reform Project, the National Prison Project and the Capital Punishment Project, as well as affiliated staff from our Washington Legislative Office and Advocacy and Communications Departments.<\/p>\n

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The Center for Justice seeks a Staff Counsel to work closely with other parts of the Center and organization to shape and advance its juvenile justice reform work as part of our Initiative to End Overincarceration. Priority areas of work will include reform of local and state policies that will lead to a reduction of youth incarceration rates in the juvenile justice system; minimizing and making more constructive the contact youth have with the adult criminal justice system; and eliminating the disproportionate contact youth of color have with the juvenile justice system. The Staff Counsel will be part of an integrated team that includes litigators, policy counsel and strategists, federal lobbyists, and communications specialists, and will work closely with ACLU affiliates across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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