Meeropol, Rachel

Position

Staff Attorney

Biography

Rachel Meeropol has worked at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) since 2002. She is the co-editor and primary author of the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook, a widely-requested resource for prisoners, and the editor of America’s Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the “War on Terror,” (Seven Stories Press, 2005).

Rachel is currently lead counsel on Turkmen v. Ashcroft, the class action suit on behalf of Arab and Muslim men rounded up in immigration sweeps after 9/11, and Walton v. NYDOCS and MCI, a suit against the New York State Department of Corrections and MCI over their monopoly contract and the exorbitant telephone rates family members are forced to pay to speak with their loved ones in prison.

Rachel is also working on Kunstler v. City of New York, CCR’s challenge to the unlawful arrests of dozens of antiwar activists in front of the offices of the Carlyle Group days after the beginning of the Iraq war.