ALC engages uses litigation, organizing, and communications to challenge mass incarceration, state violence, and human rights. We use many strategies to address a huge array of inter-related issues, and we often work in collaboration and coalition with other formal and informal groups, networks, and individuals.

Our core campaigns are:

• Eliminating Solitary Confinement
• Ending Death by Incarceration
• Decarcerating & Dismantling Jails
• Freeing People from Prison
• Safeguarding Political Rights
• Protecting Health & Challenging Unsafe Environmental Conditions
• Challenging Policing
• Abolishing Pre-Trial Detention, Probation, Cash Bail, and Parole
• Defending Democracy

We also have two major programs with dedicated staff:

• Court Watch
• Human Rights Program