{"id":257,"date":"2018-09-11T19:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/?post_type=events&p=257"},"modified":"2018-09-12T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T19:48:56","slug":"a-brief-history-of-political-prisoners-in-the-united-states-with-jan-susler","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/events\/a-brief-history-of-political-prisoners-in-the-united-states-with-jan-susler\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Political Prisoners in the United States with Jan Susler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan Susler<\/b> joined People\u2019s Law Office in 1982 after working for six years as a Clinical Law Professor at the legal clinic at Southern Illinois University\u2019s School of Law, Prison Legal Aid. At the People\u2019s Law Office she continued her litigation and advocacy work on prisoners\u2019 rights issues and also took on representing people wrongfully imprisoned, falsely arrested, strip searched, or subjected to excessive force by police officers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her long history of work on behalf of political prisoners and prisoners\u2019 rights includes litigation, advocacy and educational work around federal and state control unit prisons in the U.S. Her work with the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and with progressive movements challenging U.S. foreign and domestic policies has been a constant throughout her 36 years as a lawyer. She was an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Northeastern Illinois University, and taught constitutional law at the University of Puerto Rico.\u00a0 For over three decades she has represented Puerto Rican political prisoners, and she served as lead counsel in the efforts culminating in the 1999 presidential commutation of their sentences. She continues to represent those who remain imprisoned. Her advocacy has included testifying in hearings at the U.S. House of Representatives and the United Nations, and she has written and lectured extensively about her work.<\/span><\/p>\n

This event is a program of the exhibition <\/span>BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MU\u00d1OZ: SAFEHOUSE.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan Susler joined People\u2019s Law Office in 1982 after working for six years as a Clinical Law Professor at the legal clinic at Southern Illinois University\u2019s School of Law, Prison Legal Aid. At the People\u2019s Law Office she continued her litigation and advocacy work on prisoners\u2019 rights issues and also took on representing people wrongfully … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-257","events","type-events","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/257\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/talkingtoaction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}