Prisoners' Legal Services: Second Chances 2016

 PLS is the only statewide legal services office dedicated to providing civil legal assistance to the more than 24,000 prisoners in our state’s prisons and jails. For over 40 years, PLS has helped thousands of prisoners through both advocacy and civil litigation in state and federal courts. PLS attorneys have litigated multiple plaintiff and class actions cases and provided advice and advocacy for prisoners experiencing problems with access to medical and mental health care, staff brutality, overcrowding, classification and segregation practices and inhumane conditions of confinement.

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Honoring Charles Ogletree

 Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law. Professor Ogletree opened the offices of The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice in 2005 as a tribute to the legendary civil rights lawyer and mentor and teacher of such great civil rights lawyers as Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill. The Institute has engaged in a wide range of important educational, legal, and policy issues over the past 6 years.

Professor Ogletree is the author of several important books on race and justice. His most recent publication is a book co-edited with Professor Austin Sarat of Amherst College entitled Life without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?