Bio
Will Matthews is the senior communications officer at the ACLU of Northern California, where he leads the strategic communications component of a statewide ACLU campaign to reform California’s criminal justice system. Previously he was the senior media relations associate at the ACLU’s national office in New York, where he primarily worked on the ACLU’s campaign to reduce over-incarceration. A graduate of Chapman University in Orange, Calif, and the recipient of the Master of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University, Matthews formerly was an award-winning investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.
Featured work
Sep 28, 2011
ACLU Lens: Abuse in the Los Angeles County Jails
![Troy Davis](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/troy_davis.jpg)
Sep 20, 2011
ACLU Lens: Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole Denies Clemency to Troy Davis Despite Serious Doubts About his Guilt
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Sep 15, 2011
Judge Temporarily Halts College's Unlawful Drug Testing Program
Sep 12, 2011
Death Row Inmate's Former Prosecutor Asks Texas to Halt His Execution
Jun 15, 2011
Profile from the War on Drugs: Hamedah Hasan
Sep 2, 2010
Act Now! Tell Gov. Strickland to Grant Kevin Keith Clemency
Aug 31, 2010
Speak Out Against the "Pain Ray" at L.A. County Jail
Jun 17, 2010
Death by Firing Squad Highlights Inhumanity of Death Penalty
Jun 7, 2010
When the "Worst of the Worst" Describes the Prison, Not the Prisoners
Apr 21, 2010
Improvements to Sheriff Joe's Maricopa County Jail Long Overdue