Eric Lotke
| Hometown: | Arlington, VA |
| Interests: | Health Care for All, New Energy, Quality Education, Real Security, The Big Con, An Economy for All, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Corporate Accountability, Crime, Election Reform, Judiciary, Morality & Values, Privatization |
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Favorite Quote:
"Yes, we can."
Eric Lotke is Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future. Before coming to CAF, he worked over a decade in and around the criminal justice system. As Policy Director at the Justice Policy Institute and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow, he authored path breaking research on the demographics of incarceration, patterns of youth homicide, and the fiscal and electoral impact of the U.S. Census Bureau counting people in prison where they are confined rather than their original homes. As Executive Director of D.C. Prisoners’ Legal Services Project, Mr. Lotke represented inmates in a groundbreaking class action lawsuit against the private Corrections Corporation of America, and he pioneered litigation over excessive, non-competitive pricing of prison phone calls. Mr. Lotke has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown and George Washington Universities, and a judicial clerk on the Supreme Court of Connecticut.
Most recently, Mr. Lotke published a novel, 2044. 2044 starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem isn’t Big Brother and the leviathan government. The problem is Big Brother Inc., and the all-powerful marketplace.
