Brittany Friedman
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Brittany Friedman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Southern California–Dornsife. She holds an appointment with the American Bar Foundation as an Affiliated Scholar and previously as a 2021-2022 Access to Justice Scholar. She is author of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.
Dr. Friedman is Co-founder and Creative Director of the Captive Money Lab and Co-PI (w/ Drs. April Fernandes and Gabriela Kirk) of a cross-national comparative study of incarcerated reimbursement practices, also known as “pay-to-stay.” They have submitted written testimony at the state (Connecticut General Assembly Judiciary Committee) and federal (U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary & Federal Bureau of Prisons) levels, summarizing their peer-reviewed research findings for lawmakers.
