Legal Aid and Defender recently signed agreements with the Michigan Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative to provide legal information and assistance to ex-offenders re-entering communities in Oakland and Wayne counties. 
The goal of the MPRI is to create safer neighborhoods and better citizens by giving returning ex-offenders the critical information and guidance that they need to prepare themselves to become productive and valuable members of our society.
Legal Aid and Defender will provide in both counties legal services to MPRI clients in the areas of identification restoration, child custody, fatherhood responsibility, and other areas that provide legal expertise as identified by MPRI. The organization has provided similar services through MPRI in Macomb County for the past year.
"Our initial grants for these efforts are small," says Civil Law Chief Joan Glanton Howard. "But we have our foot in the door and are hopeful that we will expand the effort in the next round of funding for MPRI."
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