Legal Empowerment and Jailhouse Lawyering – Advancing Justice from the Inside Out

9:30-11:00 AM

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SPEAKERS

<h3><strong>SUKTI DHITTAL</strong></h3>

SUKTI DHITTAL

Moderator, Bernstein Institute 

<h3><b>MEENA JAGANNATH</b></h3>

MEENA JAGANNATH

Movement Law Lab

<h3><b>AWANDE </b><b>MSHOTANA</b></h3>

AWANDE MSHOTANA

People’s Law Paralegal Education Centre

<h3><b>JHODY POLK</b></h3>

JHODY POLK

Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative

<h3><b>SHU'AIB </b><b>ABDUR-RAHEEM</b></h3>

SHU'AIB ABDUR-RAHEEM

Common Justice

This opening panel will collectively construct a framework on how legal empowerment and jailhouse lawyering advance justice from the inside out. Presenters will reflect on their lived experience and expertise as jailhouse lawyers and justice allies to shed light on the power of collaboration, use of participatory legal processes, and an ethic of care as essential tools to reforming and abolishing the carceral system, and building a just world together.