Justice Department Announces Civil Legal Services Pilot Program

The Justice Department announced today that the Office for Access to Justice, Bureau of Prisons and National Institute of Corrections (NIC) are collaborating to launch an innovative pilot program to provide civil legal services to incarcerated individuals in select Bureau of Prisons (BOP) women’s facilities. In remarks delivered at the department’s Celebration of Second Chances event, the Deputy Attorney General highlighted this new initiative as a strategy to improve success upon reentry.