LAWS8308 · Law

Compassionate Release & Parole Clinic

Boston College Law School

Students represent inmates who have become eligible for parole from life sentences after serving at least 15 years in prison. Inmates often appear without counsel and are unable to effectively represent themselves. Students help prepare such inmates for their parole hearings; represent them at the hearings, prepare a petition for grant of parole. Students also represent inmates who are within 18 months of death or mentally or physically incapacitated. Working with graduate social work students and nursing students, law students prepare a petition for medical release.