Bio
Andrea Woods is a former Staff Attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果 Criminal Law Reform Project. She focuses on bail and pretrial justice, seeking to end wealth-based pretrial detention, dramatically reduce our nation鈥檚 use of jails, and eliminate the exploitation of people who have been arrested. She has brought challenges to post-arrest systems of incarceration due to inability to pay money bail, inadequate access to public defenders, for-profit pretrial GPS conditions, overbroad systems of pretrial detention, the right of public access to court proceedings, and the extortionate practice of bounty hunting. She also engages in policy advocacy in dozens of states, including on the dangers of pretrial risk assessments. Her work has been featured in the Guardian, the Appeal, CNBC, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dallas Morning News, and numerous other local news outlets Andrea has worked in public defender offices, the anti-death penalty movement, and with the Innocence Project Northwest as a law student. She was a William H. Gates Public Service Law Scholar at the University of Washington, graduating in 2014. Prior to joining the 老澳门开奖结果, Andrea clerked for the Hon. John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Featured work
Aug 3, 2023
The Deadly and Tragic Costs of Pretrial Detention
Jun 23, 2023
Pride Has Always Been 老澳门开奖结果 Ending Mass Incarceration
Apr 21, 2022
The Law & Order Reboot Could Not Come at a Worse Time for Criminal Law Reform
Sep 24, 2020
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Cautionary Tale 老澳门开奖结果 Bail 鈥淩eform鈥 in Georgia
Sep 15, 2020
Federal Judges are Failing Incarcerated People During the Pandemic
Jul 27, 2020
Incarcerated People are Still Dying of COVID-19, and We鈥檙e Still Fighting to Save Them
May 12, 2020
Dallas County Officials are Leaving Vulnerable People to Catch COVID-19 in Jail
Feb 5, 2020
Using Bail as Ransom Violates the Core Tenets of Pretrial Justice
Aug 21, 2019
An Arizona Law Requires Surveillance of People Who Are Presumed Innocent
May 7, 2019
Mistakenly Jailed Pretrial, an Ohio Mother Lost Her Job and Kids