Inside the organization helping prisoners in Africa become lawyers and paralegals

60 Minutes published this video item, entitled “Inside the organization helping prisoners in Africa become lawyers and paralegals” – below is their description.

In prisons across Kenya and Uganda, the Justice Defenders organization is training hundreds of inmates, many of whom don’t have their own lawyer, to become paralegals and attorneys. Anderson Cooper reports.

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