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Laura Lindley
Laura Lindley is a new attorney who has worked with issues involving prisons, jails and police for the past 5 years. While in law school, she worked with: The Women Lawyers Jail Project, Center for the Children of Incarcerated Parents, Jim DeSimone of Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris and Hoffman, and Federal District Court Judge Terry J. Hatter. She was also member of the National Lawyers Guild and a president of the Public Interest Law Committee.
As a fledgling attorney she worked with Cynthia Anderson Barker, Robert Mann, Donald Cook and Barry Litt on a MRSA case against the Los Angeles County Jail. She also assisted Ms. Barker in starting a police complaint clinic in Maywood, and in giving civil disobedience trainings to local organizations. Ms. Lindley then left civil rights for a stint at the Public Defenders Office where she racked up 7 jury trials. Missing the radical community, she left the Public Defenders Office and traveled to South America to do some rabble rousing and to (accidentally) speak out against US foreign policy on Ecuadorian television.
Currently, Ms. Lindley is working with Sonia Mercado and R. Samuel Paz on a case involving an in-custody death at a local jail.
Her outside political activities have included working with Critical Resistance, the National Lawyers Guild, the South Central Farmers, Blackrose Anarchist Collective, Copwatch, the Western Prison Project, Equal Justice Works, and founding the Northwest Alliance for Confronting Prison Abuse.
Ms. Lindley is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and Southwestern University School of Law. Although she currently works in jail and prison reform, her real dream is to assist in the dismantling of the prison industrial complex, no less.
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