Corene T Kendrick

Corene Kendrick, Deputy Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project directs litigation and policy advocacy on behalf of incarcerated people in jails, prisons, and detention centers across the country, including coordinating the national ACLU's litigation against prisons and jails challenging COVID-19 protections for incarcerated people. Previously she was a staff attorney at the Prison Law Office in Berkeley, California, where she worked on multiple class action cases on behalf of people in prisons and jails in California and Arizona. She also was a staff attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, where she led policy advocacy, impact litigation, and public education on behalf of children in foster care and juvenile justice systems in numerous jurisdictions across the country, and was a Skadden Fellow at Children’s Rights in New York, where she litigated against foster care systems in Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and Georgia. Prior to attending law school, she was a legislative assistant for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Masters of Public Affairs from the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs, and a B.A. from George Washington University.

Sub-specialties:
-Mass incarceration and conditions in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers
-Treatment of women and LGBTQ persons by the carceral and criminal justice systems
-Treatment of people with disabilities and mental illness by the carceral and criminal justice systems
-Profiteering in the carceral and criminal justice systems
-Constitutional rights of incarcerated people (religious rights, free speech / freedom to read, reproductive rights)