Fall 2027 Fellowship Sponsorship, National Prison Project

About the role

The ACLU's National Prison Project (NPP) invites rising third-year law students and recent law graduates to apply for sponsorship for an externally-funded fellowship such as Equal Justice Works, Justice Catalyst, or other public interest fellowships, to begin in the fall of 2027. This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month. Founded in 1972, NPP is the only organization that litigates carceral conditions cases on a national level. NPP works to ensure that our nation's prisons, jails, juvenile facilities, and immigration detention centers comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and international human rights principles. Through litigation, public education, and other forms of advocacy, we fight to ensure that conditions of confinement are consistent with health, safety, and human dignity; to center the humanity of incarcerated people, their families, and their communities; and to reverse the laws and policies that give the U.S. the highest incarceration rate in the world. Our priorities include improving health care in prisons, eliminating violence and maltreatment, ending solitary confinement, defending the First Amendment rights of incarcerated people, and increasing oversight and accountability in prisons, jails, ICE detention, and other places of detention. We will review applications on a rolling basis, and priority consideration will be given to those who submit applications by June 19, 2026 . This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU).