Coming Home: Bringing Knowledge and Power Back to Community
3:30-5:00 PM
SPEAKERS
Darren Breeden
Moderator, RSMC Consulting
Cayley Balser
Innovation for Justice
Canaan Nkamuhabwa
Justice Defenders
Devon Simmons
Paralegal Pathways Initiative
Jailhouse lawyers build identity, knowledge, and leadership through their years of legal practice while incarcerated. Coming home is still not easy due to collateral consequences to incarceration and restrictive policies like overly broad unauthorized practice of law regulations. This panel will explore the way that community members are carving their own new paths upon returning home and opening doors for those who follow.