Bio
Twyla Carter is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project. Prior to joining the ACLU, Carter was the Misdemeanor Practice Director and a staff attorney for the King County Department of Public Defense in Seattle, Washington. As the Misdemeanor Practice Director, she oversaw all misdemeanor casework across the four divisions of the department. As a staff attorney at The Defender Association division, she handled felony and misdemeanor trial caseloads, represented juveniles, and appealed misdemeanor convictions. Twyla received an Associate’s degree from Seattle Central Community College, a Bachelor’s degree from Seattle University, and a J.D. from the Seattle University School of Law.
Featured Work
The Case Against Galveston County’s Pretrial Detention System Survives the Government’s Challenge
If you are accused of a crime and arrested in Galveston County, Texas, you better hope you can afford to pay the preset bail amount to get out of jail. If not, then you will join hundreds of other people who are incarcerated simply because they cannot afford to buy their freedom. In Galveston and communities across the country, there is one pretrial detention system for the poor and an entirely different one for everyone else.