Re-Entry Strategies: Preparing Your Client to Re-Enter Society Following Incarceration

Date/Time: Saturday, June 1, 2013; 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: State Bar of Michigan, Michael Franck Building, 306 Townsend St, Lansing, MI 48933
Cost: $30; $20 for P&C Section members & law students (includes breakfast & materials)

Register by Friday, May 24: Mail Form PDF

Limited free parking available.

Questions? contact the Law Offices of Patricia Streeter at (734) 222-0088 or e-mail cclay@patstreeter.com.

Purpose
This is a seminar for attorneys interested in sentencing mitigation, preparing a release plan, and re-entry programs available to your client from within the Department of Corrections or once s/he returns to the community.

Presentations

How to Litigate With Re-Entry in Mind

Mitigation: difficult conversations with your client, preparing your client for allocution, helping your client identify their post-release support network, and humanizing your client for the court.
Speakers: Douglas R. Mullkoff, Kessler, Mullkoff, and Hooberman, LLP; Jacqueline C. Ouvry, Assistant Defender, State Appellate Defender Office, Gideon Sentencing Project; and Nicole George, MSW, Social Worker, State Appellate Defender Office, Gideon Sentencing Project

Re-Entry Programming Within the Department of Corrections

Funding for Department of Corrections re-entry programming: what is it now and what is our future?
Speaker: Tane Atkins, Analyst, Legislative Corrections Ombudsman

Chance for Life Organization offers voluntary programming to inmates in seven Department of Corrections' facilities. The Chance for Life program is designed to aid individuals in their intellectual transformation while incarcerated.
Speaker: Jessica Taylor, Executive Director, Chance for Life
Anticipated Speaker: MDOC Representative

Re-Entry Programming Within the Community

ARRO: "One Stop Shop to a Fresh Start," advocating on behalf of ex-offenders, navigating barriers to re-entry, connecting to community resources, and raising public awareness.
Speaker: Monica Jahner, ARRO Coordinator, Fair Chance Director and Choices Coordinator

Barriers to re-entering the community: obstacles to obtaining employment, housing, and education post-incarceration
Speaker: Miriam Aukerman, Western Michigan Regional Staff Attorney, ACLU of Michigan
Anticipated Speaker: MDOC Community Re-Entry Representative

Other News

• Michigan Supreme Court amicus brief filed in Glover v. Parole Board PDF
• What Should "Parolable Life" Mean? PDF Judges Respond to the Controversy (report of survey conducted by the Section—March 2002)