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CRS presents: Fighting Criminal (In)Justice, Building a Social Movement: Celebrating the Re-entry Clinic's First Decade, co-sponsored by BLSA and El Centro.
Formerly incarcerated persons face a myriad of challenges when they return to their communities and roles as parents, partners, and workers. Over the course of the past 10 years, 400 UCLA law students have volunteered their Saturdays in Watts, conducting intake interviews and providing legal consultation to 2,800 individuals. Under the supervision of volunteer attorneys (initially) or attorneys from A New Way of Life (three of them former re-entry clinic student volunteers themselves), they have collectively filed 8,400 post-conviction relief petitions with an 85% success rate. Join us to celebrate their work, to hear about the program’s origins within CRS, and the hard-won victories of partnering with a grass roots community organization.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
Moderator:
Laura Gomez (Professor, UCLA School of Law)
Panelists:
Saúl Sarabia ’96
Chair, Los Angeles County Probation Reform Implementation Team
Academic Coordinator, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Education
Critical Race Studies Program Director, 2005-11
Priscilla Ocen ‘07
Professor, Loyola Law School
Vice-chair, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission
CRS Teaching Fellow, 2010-12
CT Turney-Lewis ‘13
Supervising Staff Attorney, A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project
Maryam Abidi ’20
Co-Chair, El Centro Legal/CRS Re-entry Legal Clinic
CRS presents: Fighting Criminal (In)Justice, Building a Social Movement: Celebrating the Re-entry Clinic's First Decade, co-sponsored by BLSA and El Centro.
Formerly incarcerated persons face a myriad of challenges when they return to their communities and roles as parents, partners, and workers. Over the course of the past 10 years, 400 UCLA law students have volunteered their Saturdays in Watts, conducting intake interviews and providing legal consultation to 2,800 individuals. Under the supervision of volunteer attorneys (initially) or attorneys from A New Way of Life (three of them former re-entry clinic student volunteers themselves), they have collectively filed 8,400 post-conviction relief petitions with an 85% success rate. Join us to celebrate their work, to hear about the program’s origins within CRS, and the hard-won victories of partnering with a grass roots community organization.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
Moderator:
Laura Gomez (Professor, UCLA School of Law)
Panelists:
Saúl Sarabia ’96
Chair, Los Angeles County Probation Reform Implementation Team
Academic Coordinator, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Education
Critical Race Studies Program Director, 2005-11
Priscilla Ocen ‘07
Professor, Loyola Law School
Vice-chair, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission
CRS Teaching Fellow, 2010-12
CT Turney-Lewis ‘13
Supervising Staff Attorney, A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project
Maryam Abidi ’20
Co-Chair, El Centro Legal/CRS Re-entry Legal Clinic
