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  • An initiative is securing justice for rape survivors but faces a heap of challenges

    August 20, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    The Basic Rights Counsel Initiative provides free legal representation, emergency shelter, and psychological support to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria's Cross River state. In a country where prosecutions can be hampered by ineffective or under-resourced institutions, the organization has filed 822 court cases and secured 30 arrests and convictions.

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  • After a series of medical issues, Tarrant County Jail hired this nurse to advocate for inmates.

    August 03, 2022 |

    Fort Worth Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Texas’ Tarrant County Jail has a medical liaison that uses her master’s degree in forensics nursing to advocate for people who are incarcerated and in need of medical care.

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  • Program aims to bring diversity from classrooms into courtrooms

    July 05, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    In an effort to diversify Arizona’s disproportionately white judiciary, legal professionals are volunteering in the state’s Legal Futures program to do outreach to high school and college students. The students spend face-to-face time with the professionals learning about career pathways and often leave with contact information to stay in touch.

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  • Wrongful Convictions Lawyers Cash In by Targeting Insurers

    June 21, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Idaho Falls, Idaho

    The lawyers at Lathrop GPM created a strategy to settle civil rights claims by encouraging municipalities to use insurance money to pay settlements. The strategy helps inmates alleging bodily injury and wrongful conviction to recieve payouts and be absolved of their crimes without using taxpayer dollars.

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  • Decongesting Nigerian correctional facilities through Technology

    June 17, 2022 |

    Pulse Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Headfort Foundation provides free legal services to people who can’t afford lawyers. Through their app, Lawyers NowNow, users can access free legal advice and get connected to pro bono lawyers. The group of all-female lawyers work exclusively with people who do not have the resources to hire lawyers, especially those that have been victims of police brutality or wrongfully incarcerated. The group has worked on over 1,000 cases in three years and secured the release of almost 300 people in that time.

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  • How an Experimental Service in a Library Prevents Incarceration

    June 01, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    The Tap In Center in St. Louis connects volunteer attorneys with people who have open warrants to work toward recalling them. Since the service launched a little over a year ago, nearly 300 warrants have been recalled.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento  

    May 25, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act was designed to help aged-out foster children in need of housing for up to three years. Foster children can choose whether they want to continue living with their foster parents, another guardian or transition into an apartment or college dorm. There’s a group of twelve specialized social workers who work closely with foster care youth to create Transitional Independent Living Plans, which help these aged-out youths transition into housing.

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  • From prison to freedom: How a firm is helping detainees get justice

    April 30, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Headfort Foundation runs pro bono cases for incarcerated people in need of legal representation. The Foundation recently launched a Lawyers Without Borders initiative that grants easily accessible, free legal services to those in need by setting up mobile offices. This initiative alone has helped more than 175 people thus far.

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  • More Public Defense Spending

    April 28, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Defender Association of Philadelphia practices community-oriented public defense — also known as "holistic defense" — to connect clients with support services and resources that help address the root causes of crimes. The association works with social workers, investigators, and paralegals to get clients access to housing, food, jobs, and healthcare, as well as mental health and substance use treatment, with more than 150 people referred to treatment providers between September 2016 and January 2017.

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  • Promoting children's rights through community child protection volunteers

    January 25, 2022 |

    Rwanda News Agency |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Inshuti z’Umuryango (IZU) is a group of almost 30,000 volunteers that identifies and helps children in need. One female and one male per village are elected by each village and serve as trusted community members who fill the gaps in the child protection system, including arranging health, education, income-assistance, and psychological support for children in need.

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