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Mitchell Hamline’s Prison to Law Pipeline work featured on PBS NewsHour

Posted: December 14, 2022
Mitchell Hamline’s work to welcome the first-ever currently incarcerated students at an ABA-approved law school was featured in a story Tuesday evening on PBS NewsHour. The story, produced by Simeon Lancaster and part of reporter Fred de Sam Lazaro’s Agents For Change series and the NewsHour’s ongoing series Searching for Justice, features current students Maureen …

Mitchell Hamline’s Prison to Law Pipeline work featured on PBS NewsHour

Mitchell Hamline clinic helps win reprieve in case over reincarcerating inmates

Posted: August 15, 2022
Mitchell Hamline’s Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners (LAMP) Clinic, along with the ACLU of Minnesota and the Clemency Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School, obtained an order from a Ramsey County judge last week that will prevent, for now, the reincarceration of 18 people. The 18 were among 158 who had won conditional …

Mitchell Hamline clinic helps win reprieve in case over reincarcerating inmates

Mitchell Hamline legal fellow stars in new play about Minnesota’s prison system

Posted: May 17, 2022
Noelle Faye spends her days helping current and recent prison inmates get free legal aid through Mitchell Hamline’s Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners (LAMP) and Reentry clinics. But recently, her free time has been spent at rehearsals for a new play in Minneapolis that draws on the experiences of people in the state’s prison system. …

Mitchell Hamline legal fellow stars in new play about Minnesota’s prison system

A voice for change: Alum seeks to destigmatize criminality

Posted: September 14, 2021
Nadine Graves ’17 understands firsthand the collateral consequences of a criminal past. She had plans to become a nurse and worked as a nursing assistant until she was convicted for felony marijuana possession as a juvenile. “I was misled to believe that a “friend” was having soccer jerseys shipped to my house and it turned …

A voice for change: Alum seeks to destigmatize criminality

Dean Niedwiecki proctors LSAT at two Minnesota prisons

Posted: April 19, 2021
School explores offering legal education for incarcerated people Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Anthony Niedwiecki has proctored many exams in his life but never behind bars. When he administered the LSAT in two Minnesota correctional facilities earlier this month (Apr. 10 and 11), it was believed to be the first time that has happened inside …

Dean Niedwiecki proctors LSAT at two Minnesota prisons