Ellen Barry (attorney)

Ellen M. Jenkins (born 1955) is an American attorney and public interest lawyer who focuses on prisoners' rights. She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellows Program.[1]

Life and education

She grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts, as the second of ten children. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Swarthmore College in 1975 and a J.D. from New York University Law School in 1978.[1] She was admitted to the State Bar of California in November 1978.[2]

Career

In 1978 Jenkins founded Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that seeks to address "young people at risk of incarceration, grandparent caregivers, alternatives to incarceration for mothers and children, and improving medical care for women in prisons and jails". where she worked as director and managing attorney until 1999, when she left to work in private practice.[1]

She helped organize the National Network for Women in Prison, and Critical Resistance.[3] She has represented "incarcerated women, pregnant women prisoners, prisoners, and parolees" in lawsuits.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ellen Barry: Attorney and Human Rights Leader (Last updated January 1, 2005)". MacArthur Fellows Program. 1 July 1998. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Ellen M. Barry". CalDir.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Will Hermes (January–February 1999). "Maverick: Ellen Barry, Jailhouse Lawyer". Utne Reader.
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