Jamie Fellner

Jamie Fellner is senior counsel for the United States Program of Human Rights Watch.[1][2] The U.S. Program focuses on human rights violations within the United States. From 2004-09, she also served on the U.S. National Prison Rape Elimination Commission.[1][3]

Education

Jamie Fellner obtained a bachelor's degree from Smith College and went on to obtain her Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall at the University of California-Berkeley. Fellner also completed doctoral work at Stanford University in Latin American history.[2] She also can speak Spanish.[4]

Fellner's work has been widely reported on by the mass media and she has been a guest on numerous television programs.[2] She has appeared as a guest on ABC Evening News, The Today Show, Hardball, Crossfire, The O'Reilly Factor, All Things Considered, Hannity and Colmes, and BBC News.[2]

Fellner also wrote articles for different newspapers& such as:

Lethal Injections Ill-Conceived, With Painful Results[5]
Pain and Punishment for Persons with Mental Disabilities Behind Bars in the USA[6]
Power Failure: NYC Judges Penalize The Poor[7]
"US Right to Curb Harsh Drug Sentences", Human Rights Watch[8]
"A Drug Abuse Policy That Fails Everyone", The Huffington Post[9]
US: A Nation Behind Bars, Human Rights Watch, 2014 [10]
Decent Decision, Huffington Post.[11]
About mentally ill prisoners. December 2015.[12]
About mistreatment of inmates,[13]
US civil Liberties after September 11.[14]

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