Jackie Aranda Osorno (she/her) is the Zitrin Anti-Court Secrecy Senior Attorney at Public Justice, where she focuses on increasing public access to court records and proceedings. Jackie has represented advocacy organizations, reporters, and community members in efforts to intervene in litigation to unseal court records or lift confidentiality restrictions. Before joining Public Justice, Jackie litigated class actions challenging unconstitutional conditions in Alabama's prisons and various county jails in California, including Braggs et al. v. Dunn et al., and Murray v. County of Santa Barbara.
CJ Sandley (they/them) is based in Birmingham, Alabama. As a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and previously at the Southern Poverty Law Center, CJ focuses primarily on prison and detention litigation, including Braggs et al. v. Dunn et al. (mental health care and disability accommodations in Alabama prisons); Ashker v. Governor of California (indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons); Barrientos v. CoreCivic (forced labor at Stewart Detention Center); and Stanley v. Ivey (slavery and involuntary servitude in Alabama prisons). CJ has also litigated dozens of habeas corpus petitions on behalf of detained immigrants.
Beth Shelbourne (she/her) is journalist and writer with more than 25 years of experience. She’s done extensive reporting on Alabama’s prison system with work appearing in The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, The Bitter Southerner and The Appeal. She publishes a newsletter on Substack called Moth to Flame that includes my reporting and essays written at the intersection of justice, injustice and life in Alabama.
