Engineering Change Speaker Series: Access to Legal Education - Are Prisons the New Frontier?

The law school application process is tough and harder still for those not from privileged backgrounds. It is expensive, time-consuming, and confusing even for those who have monetary support, time, and family resources to aid them.

The process is especially exclusionary for the currently incarcerated or those with a prior criminal record. It is here, in prison, that Dean Anthony Niedwiecki of Mitchell Hamline Law School wants to begin expanding access to a law school education. At our next Engineering Change speaker series, Dean Niedwiecki will share how he's building a "prison to law school pipeline" and why he believes the incarcerated should be given a fair shot at a legal education, particularly because access to a legal education is already scarce in places he calls "law school deserts."