This week at my internship, I continued working on some grant reports. I was able to take a break from this, however, when my supervisor invited me to go to a meeting. At Prisoners’ Advice Service, they have various caseworkers who work with specific groups of prisoners. One of the caseworkers that I went to the meeting with works specifically with women prisoners. This caseworker travels to various prisons where she meets with prisoners and teaches them about their rights. PAS wants to expand these clinics to involve more family law information, due to the importance of maintaining family ties between prisoners and their children. This meeting was between Rights of Women, who will be training two PAS caseworkers, PAS, and a professor from a university who will be interviewing the prisoners and developing questionnaires to assess the clinics. It was really interesting meeting all of these people and seeing how excited and invested they are in their work.
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