Bio
Eunice Hyunhye Cho is a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU National Prison Project. Eunice’s work focuses on challenging unconstitutional conditions in U.S. immigration detention facilities and the expansion of immigration detention. Prior to joining the NPP, Eunice was a Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Washington, where she litigated cases involving the rights of immigrants in detention, incarcerated people, and students with disabilities. She also worked as a Staff Attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she litigated cases related to immigration enforcement abuse and prison conditions, and authored several reports regarding abuses in immigration detention and immigration court adjudication, including Shadow Prisons: Immigration Detention in the South. She was a Skadden Fellow, and later a Staff Attorney, at the National Employment Law Center, focusing on issues affecting immigrant workers.
Eunice received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Following graduation, she clerked for Hon. Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is proficient in Spanish and Korean, and is a former community organizer.
Featured work
![US Customs and Border Protection building facade.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/01/us-customs-and-border-protection-building-facade-b-400x266.jpg)
Jan 12, 2024
Government Agencies Shouldn't Be Allowed to Destroy Their Paper Trail of Medical Abuse and Neglect
![Protestors march in front of the ICE Company, The Geo Group building, demanding the end of private prisons.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/08/anti-private-prison-protest-geo-b-400x266.jpg)
Aug 7, 2023
Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention, Three Years Into the Biden Administration
![Immigration detainees leave the cafeteria under the watch of guards during a media tour at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La., in this Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019 file photo.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/11/Blog-ICE-400x266.jpg)
Nov 12, 2021
ICE’s Detention Oversight System Needs an Overhaul
![Phone next to window used by visitors to prison to communicate with inmates behind glass.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/10/Blog-counsel-400x266.jpg)
Oct 29, 2021
ICE Makes It Impossible for Immigrants in Detention to Contact Lawyers
![Empty cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/10/PRISON-400x266.jpg)
Oct 5, 2021
More of the Same: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention Under the Biden Administration
![Woman holds sign that reads "Close the Camps" outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Portland](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/06/Behind-Closed-Doors-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jun 29, 2021
Cruelty and Coercion: How ICE Abuses Hunger Strikers
![A woman wears a protective face mask and gloves as she protests outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office Friday, May 29, 2020, in Plantation, Fla.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/04/web21-ICE-COVID_blog_Wordpress1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Apr 5, 2021
ICE’s Watchdog Agency Confirms Dangerous Conditions in Arizona Immigration Detention Facility
![A detainee lays on a bunk in a pod at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. As of November 2019, 1,625 male detainees were said to be held at the center by ICE.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/Report-Detention-Blog-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jun 29, 2020
DHS Watchdog Confirms: ICE is Failing to Protect Detained People From COVID
![A woman drives in a caravan protesting conditions detainees face in ICE detention centers.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/05/FOIA-Blog-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
May 22, 2020
ICE’s Lack of Transparency About COVID-19 in Detention Will Cost Lives
![Detainees walk toward a fenced recreation area inside of an ICE detention facility in Washington state.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/04/COVID-Ice-Detention-report-header-image-400x266.jpg)
Apr 30, 2020
Immigration Detention Was a Black Box Before COVID-19. Now, it’s a Death Trap.