This week’s episode of The Legal Lens podcast features attorney Alec Karakatsanis, Founder and Executive Director of @civrightscorps.
Alec graduated from Yale College in 2005 with a degree in Ethics, Politics, & Economics and Harvard Law School in 2008, where he was a Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review.
Before founding the Civil Rights Corps, Alec built his career as a civil rights lawyer and public defender, including work with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and as a federal public defender in Alabama.
He also co-founded Equal Justice Under Law and has spent years developing legal, advocacy, and narrative strategies with direct impact.
In this clip, he shares how detention, fines, fees, and pretrial pressure affect people long before a case reaches trial.
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