Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
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Headquarters Location: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 1978
Mission: Our mission is to advocate for the civil rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration through responding to requests for information, trainings, technical assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more advocates. Our focus is on women prisoners and their families, and we emphasize that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration.
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incarcerated parents, information, training, technical assistance, litigation, community activism, children, family, people at risk for incarceration, california
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Leadership
Dorsey Nunn.
Dorsey Nunn is the Executive Director for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and co-founder of All of Us or None, a civil and human rights organization comprised of formerly incarcerated people, prisoners and their allies. He is also a formerly-incarcerated person. Dorsey is a member of the National Organizing Committee for Critical Resistance and a founding member of Critical…
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Contact Info
Website:
E-Mail:
info AT prisonerswithchildren.org
Phone:
415-255-7036
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Address:
1540 Market St., Suite 490
San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
Story:
Historically, LSPC has supported the creation of California’s mother-infant programs. These are small facilities located around the state in which mothers sentenced to state prison can serve their sentences while living with their young children. In 2007, we became aware of significant problems at one facility and decided to investigate them all. After touring each facility and speaking with mothers and staff, we issued this report in November 2010. The report identifies their strengths and weaknesses. We make numerous recommendations for their improvement, but our overall recommendation is that these mothers not be sent to prison at all. Instead, they should be allowed to remain in their communities with their children and provided with the services that they need. We have met with CDCR to discuss our recommendations and are working with the legislature and others to implement them.
Expert Reviews of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Evidence of Impact Summary:
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children has made significant strides in mobilizing a national movement of prisoners, ex-prisoners, and family members to fight for streamlined reentry programs for ex-prisoners and an improved criminal justice system overall. The organization’s project All of Us or None has been particularly successful in its attempts to make employment opportunities available to former prisoners.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children is strong in its use of knowledgeable staff members from a wide variety of life experiences, its unwavering commitment to those affected by the criminal justice system, and its constantly improving strategies in marketing and outreach.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Experts have noted that LSPC can be a stronger organization by having more access to funding and by prioritizing technological improvements.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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All of Us or None is a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and has taken leadership in the organizing and mobilizing the formerly incarcerated and convicted people of America. Forging alliances with other affected individuals, AOUON convened a gathering in Selma, Alabama of 50 formerly incarcerated people- all of whom are doing activist work in their locations. Building upon this, this broader group ("Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People's Movement") is organizing a large scale gathering in Los Angeles to launch a national platform. AOUON is also a primary catalyst of the "Ban the Box" movement across the nation, having raised it as a primary issue in San Francisco. | ||
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This organization is doing fantastic work organizing prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families into a national movement focused on less incarceration, more re-entry services, and an improved criminal justice system. | ||
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LSPC hosts a project called All of Us or None -- a group comprised of formerly incarcerated people who have led national efforts to "Ban the Box " by removing from job applications the question about the applicant's criminal history. The group has succeeded in six states and over 35 cities nationwide. It is a important effort in and of itself, while also representing a smart strategy for raising a the profile of discrimination faced by people with criminal convictions. | ||
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They have been extremely effective in their "Ban the Box" effort to assist formerly incarcerated people gain employment rights. They have had victories in multiple arenas across the country. | ||
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This organization has helped thousands of children and their incarcerated parents in capacities from legal assistance and gift giving to counseling youth in their despair of missing their parent. | ||
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This group has chapters in SF, LA, San Antonio, North Carolina and more. Their leadership has established credibility in the sector among grassroots activists, formerly incarcerated, and currently incarcerated. The Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers reached out to them to negotiate on their behalf. Being fully representative of those affected by the system, including many currently on probation or parole, they are straightforward on positions of systemic change. The field habitually closes out voices of experience, and thus much of the field fails to enact programs with a connection to their "clients." | ||
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Grassroots, formerly incarcerated and convicted people are leadership, and as such, they have the consciousness, experience, and legitimacy to know what is most needed. | ||
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LSPC's leadership -- including Dorsey Nunn and Linda Evans -- displays an uncommon commitment to their objectives, in the face of great odds. They remain deeply connected to the constituencies they serve. | ||
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Their leadership and staff lawyers are wonderful with improvements on every aspect of legal issues and visitations. The operations are non-ending, and their marketing skills are impeccable. | ||
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Their work is cutting edge and empowering. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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They could use regular technology trainings, and/or a firm partnership with those providing technical support. Much of their staff, as with other grassroots organizations, are older and did not ride the wave of internet growth and software applications. This is a classic contrast against highly funded non-profits being able to hire an IT department and PR department. Yet this does not mean that their content is as highly developed as those communicating it. | ||
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They need better tech capacity and more resources so the leadership and members don't burn out. In short, the entire CJ movement needs to have a more robust infrastructure on which to base its important work. | ||
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LSPC could improve by strengthening their marketing and developing better communications strategies. | ||
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Financing is always an issue for non-profit organizing; therefore, what I see is a need to further help the work through more funding. | ||
Leadership
Dorsey Nunn
Executive Director
Executive Director
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