prison education
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In Kenya’s overcrowded prisons, where more than 80% of inmates have never been represented by a lawyer, a British-founded organization is training incarcerated people to become paralegals and lawyers, and the results have been nothing short of transformative. Justice Defenders, founded by Alexander McLean in 2007, has worked in 55 prisons across Kenya, Uganda, and…
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In what legal scholars are calling one of the most remarkable redemption stories in modern American jurisprudence, a convicted bank robber who taught himself law while serving a 12-year federal prison sentence has become a professor at one of the nation’s premier law schools. Shon Hopwood, now a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, first…
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Benard McKinley’s journey from incarceration to acceptance at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law is a testament to resilience and determination. Convicted at 19 and sentenced to 100 years behind bars, McKinley turned his prison cell into a university, earning his GED and paralegal diplomas while advocating for fellow inmates. Reflecting on his time in prison,…
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