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Welcome to Law In Action
Law In Action (LIA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Greenville, SC.
LIA currently offers these projects:
Jail Project:
Not every poor person who is arrested is entitled to a free lawyer.
Persons charged with minor offenses often have nobody in the system
looking out for them. As a result, someone can sit in the jail for days
or weeks (even if they are not guilty of the crime charged), even longer than the maximum sentence they face if they are
guilty of the charge, without knowing what to do about gaining release.
The Jail Project, with funding from private donors, the
South Carolina Bar Foundation and the Community Foundation of Greenville
(Hollingsworth Funds, Inc.),
assists non-violent inmates to obtain release on bond pending trial in
appropriate cases. Investigators notify inmates of their legal rights
including the right to counsel and the right to medical care.
The Greenville County Detention Center suffers from overcrowding which
can lead to violence and other problems. Jail Project volunteers and
college student investigators conduct interviews at the detention center
and then develop action plans for each case. Additionally, the Jail
project has launched the Time to Read initiative, a book drive for the
Greenville County Detention Center aimed at significantly expanding the
jail library’s current collection. As of this writing, Time To Read has
collected and delivered over 1700 paperbacks to the detention center.
Workshops:
The purpose of this project is to provide information on legal topics to
non-lawyers. The topics include: job rights, civil
and constitutional rights, and student rights. Groups of 30 or more
can request a workshop on the offered legal topics by contacting Law In
Action.
Mock Trials: LIA
offers interested classroom teachers and other groups a real life trial
experience for high school age students. Students play the roles
of prosecutors and defense in cases prepared by LIA volunteers.
LIA also offers an analysis and discussion of the trial in To Kill A
Mockingbird. Contact Law In Action for more information. A partial
list of cases available through LIA can be found on the Mock Trials
page.
Law In Action has a limited number of bumper stickers (like the one shown above) for those who would like to
display the stickers on their vehicles. If you are interested, please contact our office at 232-1330.
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