via LSC blog September 8, 2020 – The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School (LSC), on behalf of veterans organizations Swords to Plowshares and the National Veterans Legal …
Harvard Law students win release for two inmates with mental disabilities
via Harvard Law Today Michael Horrell ’14 became the first of many Harvard Law School students to represent Richard Crowell when he appeared on his client’s behalf at a parole hearing in 2012. …
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They’ve been granted parole. So why can it take years for them to get out of prison?
by Jenifer B. McKim via Boston Globe Magazine Nearly 10 years ago, Wilfred Dacier was told he would be a free man. But for Dacier, now 63, his view continued to be a little corner of the town of …
‘October Massacre’ victims’ trial highlights traumas in Bolivia
via PRI by Elana Gordon The night before she boarded a plane to the United States last month, Etelvina Ramos Mamani awoke from a terrible dream. “I saw Marlene,” she said, referring to her …
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A Guinean Political Activist was Granted Asylum in the U.S. After Fleeing Political Persecution
By: Angelica Merino Monge and Logan Seymour In 2009, Imani*, a citizen of Guinea, West Africa, fled the country with the youngest of her four children. From 2009 to 2011, the legal team at the …
A Honduran Activist Pursues Justice in the Face of Persecution
By: Alexis Farmer “I suffered persecution because of my strong beliefs that the government should guarantee the basic rights of its people,” said Elvia*. The 57-year-old mother of two from Yoro, …
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