Preview
Creation Date
9-6-2018
Description
Around the world prisons are in crisis, overcrowded and under-resourced. Those who need justice most are least likely to gain access to it. And those who have the most to contribute to the justice system-who have experienced it for themselves - are least likely to be heard. African Prisons Project seeks to turn this around. By empowering prisons and prison staff through legal services and training they seek to place the power the law in the hands of the poor. Unique in their work is not that they offer free legal services within the prison walls, but that those who are empowered to provide them are the prisoners and prison guards themselves.
A reception in the Hesburgh Center's Great Wall will follow the talk.
Co-sponsored by the Kellog Institute for International Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Alexander McLean is the founder of the African Prison Project , which works to ensure access to justice for Africa's most vulnerable. Over the past ten years they have supported over 30 prisons across East Africa with life skills training and legal services.