Our Mission
Civil Rights Corps is dedicated to challenging systemic injustices and to building a society that promotes equality and freedom for all human beings. We engage in innovative civil rights litigation, as well as advocacy, narrative, and public education work to re-sensitize the legal system and our culture to the everyday violence that characterizes the punishment bureaucracy in the United States. Our work supports and shifts power to social movements, including those led by people who are most impacted by systemic injustice so that they can build power to create structural change.
WINNING LEGAL CASES
Pioneering the most sophisticated and strategic legal cases with bold vision, meticulous detail, and unparalleled knowledge.
BUILDING MOVEMENT-LED POLICY
Leading a transformative, care-based safety agenda and helping communities design and scale evidence-based alternatives to incarceration.
CHANGING NARRATIVES
Challenging how lawyers communicate and to whom that communication is accountable. Shifting assumptions about the purposes and effects of the punishment bureaucracy.
Sparks of Hope: The Power of Families in the Pursuit of Justice
Watch Civil Rights Corps’ founder Alec Karakatsanis talk about our approach to our work in the context of the Right 2 Hug Project.