GJP in the News
From Hired Guns to Healers
The Emerging Movement to Renew Legal Culture%%%
by Ralph White%%%
Conscious Choice, December 2002%%%
In Georgia, if you eliminate drunk driving charges, 93 percent of those arrested are poor, and the state has long been locked in an unbroken cycle of poverty and crime. When convicted clients get out of jail, the GJP offers them a job in its landscaping business and invites them to community dinners to give them the means to change their lives. "A lot of clients say that GJP is their first family" Ammar commented, as the joy and satisfaction in this work radiated through his cheerful, humorous face.
The Emerging Movement to Renew Legal Culture%%%
by Ralph White%%%
Conscious Choice, December 2002%%%
In Georgia, if you eliminate drunk driving charges, 93 percent of those arrested are poor, and the state has long been locked in an unbroken cycle of poverty and crime. When convicted clients get out of jail, the GJP offers them a job in its landscaping business and invites them to community dinners to give them the means to change their lives. "A lot of clients say that GJP is their first family" Ammar commented, as the joy and satisfaction in this work radiated through his cheerful, humorous face.
Unusual legal aid group helps turn lives around
__Atlanta Journal Constitution__%%%
Bill Rankin - Staff%%%
Monday, December 2, 2002
It's hard to say exactly when Will Smarr hit rock bottom.
Maybe it was the night he sat in a bathroom shooting heroin into his vein and the lights began to dim --- except it wasn't the ceiling lights going out, it was an overdose. Maybe it was when his wife kicked him out of the house for continually abusing drugs. Or maybe it was the time he shot and paralyzed a drug dealer who had sold him some bad dope, an offense that sent him into the Georgia prison system.
"There were times when I didn't care whether I lived or died," Smarr says now.
__Atlanta Journal Constitution__%%%
Bill Rankin - Staff%%%
Monday, December 2, 2002
It's hard to say exactly when Will Smarr hit rock bottom.
Maybe it was the night he sat in a bathroom shooting heroin into his vein and the lights began to dim --- except it wasn't the ceiling lights going out, it was an overdose. Maybe it was when his wife kicked him out of the house for continually abusing drugs. Or maybe it was the time he shot and paralyzed a drug dealer who had sold him some bad dope, an offense that sent him into the Georgia prison system.
"There were times when I didn't care whether I lived or died," Smarr says now.
GJP in the Christian Science Monitor
Lawyers defend poor - if they mend their ways
by Patrik Jonsson
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Lawyers defend poor - if they mend their ways
by Patrik Jonsson
Download the pdf file to read the article.