University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, September 25.1979
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Defender program helps inmates
By JENNIFER HOLT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A dozen KU law students spent time in prison Friday.
They were exposed to the environment typical of such an institution—the odor of sweaty bodies and antiseptic, the din of voices echoing in old halls and the sight of prisoners wandering amply from the hallway and watching the visitors from the outside world.
The visitors were second-year and third-year students enrolled in the KU School of Law Defender Project. The project provides legal assistance to inmates at the
federal penitentiary in Leavenworth and at both the Kansas State Prison and the Kansas Correctional Institute for Women in Lansing.
The project provides law students with an opportunity to interview prisoners and residents, restoring points of law, draft legal frameworks to negotiate with attorneys and prison administrators, according to Mike Pepon, Paladar third-year law student who acts as a prosecutor.
"FOR MANY INMATES we are next to their last resort for help," Pepon said. "If a full-time attorney or lawyer can't
them, and we have a backlog of cases and can't help them, then they usually opt to help themselves."
Pepon said that criminal lawyers usually did not have as much time to spend with the inmates as the students do and that the inmates always view the inmates as profitable clients.
Last year, the project had a continuous backlog of about 30 cases, Peepon said. He mentioned that the students' immune because the students could not engage in lengthy litigation. Contributing to this year's backlog was a decrease in the number of students assisting with the project.
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THIS YEAR WHEN the law students visit the inmates, Pepon said, they will work on cases concerning conditions in the prison where most of the time the students will work on cases that deal with the legal process that incarnevies conviction and imprisonment, he said.
Peepon said that one group of applications involve parole appeals and divorce cases.
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Those cases dealing with the legal process usually involve alleged trial errors, violations of constitutional rights during the investigation and losing the investigation of a crime.
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David Gottlieb, professor of law and director of the project, said, "We're asked to do more than we can possible do. And it's very difficult to achieve heavy workload and lack of resources."
"Another large group of applications involve detainers, which are hold orders
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Peppe said that to apply for assistance, an inmate could either write directly to the Defender Clinic or could submit a form of evidence. He supplied through institution caseworkers.
lodged against inmates by authorities in other jurisdictions," Pepon said.
THE CASE IS then assigned to a student who interviews the inmate to determine whether he has a legitimate complaint.
Even if there is no legal remedy available, the student acts as a combination social worker, friend and legal voice to the inmate
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