00:00The project aims to deliver justice directly to those behind prison walls and in undeserved rural communities.
00:07The initiative aims to destigmatize criminal processes that often impact socially displaced and vulnerable groups,
00:14offering wide-reaching benefits for rural residents, incarcerated individuals, and students and social activists.
00:23The project aims to foster a more equitable justice system, supporting socially displaced persons and undeserved populations.
00:32Speakers such as Dr. Lucia Roberts, Dean of Faculty of Law in UWE St. Augustine,
00:38Dr. Baljot Jodzinga, Founder and Director of the Incarcerated Network and Professor of John Jay College in Criminal Law,
00:47gave a rundown on how this project will launch.
00:50The work in this project and in this collaboration seeks to place a spotlight on the issues of access to justice,
00:57criminal justice reform, the experiences of incarcerated persons with a view of deconstructing narratives of stigma and discrimination.
01:07She also highlighted the three main initiatives which they will engage in over the next 10 months.
01:14We will have three mobile legal aid clinics, which will see the staff, students, and colleagues in law and social work
01:21going into the community to provide free legal services to persons who need it.
01:26There will also be an opportunity to follow up on the work in this clinic through a strategic litigation partnership.
01:33Dr. Roberts mentioned that this project will be going to El Dorado, Mayaro, and Tobago.
01:40She closed off by saying that this project seeks to bring students from the Faculty of Health together with colleagues in Trinidad and Tobago
01:47to participate in collaborating with each other.
01:50The project seeks to bring students from the Faculty of Law Cable Campus together with colleagues in Trinidad and Tobago
01:56to participate and collaborate actively in each of the initiatives identified.
02:03As the University of the West Indies take project forward, the faculty collaborated with Dr. Boz Drozdzinga,
02:09founder and director of the Incarcerated Network, and professor of John Jay College in criminal law.
02:15Dr. Boz Drozdzinga brought remarks to the Inui Legal Aid Project.
02:21The other pillar of our work is under the heading of leadership, development, and empowerment of those with lived experience of the justice system.
02:29To that end, we have a global freedom fellowship where we are building a community of formerly incarcerated leaders from around the world
02:36whom we bring to South Africa annually and then work to connect with each other and in their respective countries.
02:43UWI's initiative is to reduce stigma associated with criminal processes which will benefit rural communities, jailed individuals, students, and social activists.
02:54The program seeks to create a more fair justice system by promoting social equity and rethinking access to justice.
03:03Azaria Ifill, TV6 News.
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