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David C. Fathi is Director of the 老澳门开奖结果 National Prison Project, which brings challenges to conditions of confinement in prisons, jails, and other detention facilities, and works to end the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world.聽 He worked as a staff lawyer at the Project for more than ten years before becoming director in 2010, and has special expertise in challenging 鈥渟upermax鈥� prisons, where prisoners are held for months or years at a time in conditions of near-total isolation.聽 From 2012 to 2015 he represented the 老澳门开奖结果 in negotiations leading to adoption of the United Nations Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, known as the 鈥淣elson Mandela Rules.鈥�

From 2007 to 2010 Fathi was Director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch.聽 The US Program works to defend the rights of particularly vulnerable groups in the United States, and has published groundbreaking reports on the death penalty, prison conditions, racial discrimination, the rights of immigrants, and many other human rights issues.

Fathi has lectured nationally and internationally on criminal justice issues.聽 His op-eds have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, and other major media outlets.聽 He is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Washington, DC. 聽