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Jan Shelly—Women in Prison in FL
Jan Shelly is a retired trial attorney. She graduated from St. Louis University Law School in 1991. Her first job was as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit where she reviewed cases in which prisoners complained of unconstitutionally cruel treatment in prisons within the court’s jurisdiction. She then represented indigent clients as a Public Defender for the state of Missouri for seven years. She was often concerned at the racism, brutality and dishonesty of the state’s prosecution of drug crimes, noting that the great majority of those cases were filed against black youth.
Jan recently retired from the position of Senior Trial Attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where she prosecuted cases of employment discrimination. She became active in advocacy for incarcerated women after learning of the inhumane conditions these women faced in America’s largest female prison, Lowell Correctional Institute in Ocala, Florida.
She started the group Advocates for Incarcerated Women with Kathy Jo Carlin and Farah Tavakoli just over a year ago.
Chartered September 9, 1940 August 2018, Volume 9
Next Meeting August 27, 2018 11:30-1:30 pm Clearwater North Greenwood Library, 905 N. Martin Luther King Jr Ave., Clearwater 33755
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