2025-09-25T09:24:54-07:00 2024-12-31 811489821 HEALY AND ASSOCIATES 1200 CONCORD AVE STE 250 CONCORD CA 94520 990 2024-01-01 461538094 UNCOMMON LAW UNCO 5102710310 318 HARRISON ST 103 OAKLAND CA 94607 KEITH WATTLEY Executive Director 2025-09-25 true true Hasina Sabrina Chowdhury P03013259 9256030800 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z KEITH WATTLEY 318 HARRISON ST 103 OAKLAND CA 94607 7679261 false X WWW.UNCOMMONLAW.ORG X 2012 CA UnCommon Law fights to ensure that all people incarcerated for violent crime have access to healing, justice, and effective legal representation.Through our unique, trauma-informed model of advocacy, we provide the space currently missing in the system for healing, accountability, and safe pathways home from prison. In developing new self narratives, the people we serve are able to more effectively disrupt violence inside and outside prison, and become leaders who change negative societal narratives about those incarcerated for violent crime. Our groundbreaking approach is changing policy and outcomes, driven by the voices and experiences of system-impacted communities. 8 7 45 15 0 2951671 7455060 0 81777 69604 111081 3021275 7647918 0 0 2640219 3387209 0 113368 788374 982102 3428593 4369311 -407318 3278607 4222000 7201943 710875 412211 3511125 6789732 UNCOMMON LAW'S MISSION IS TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND HEALING FOR PEOPLE IMPACTED BY INCARCERATION. WE DELIVER TRAUMA-INFORMED, HEALING-CENTERED MENTAL HEALTH AND LEGAL COUNSELING TO HELP PROVIDE A SAFE PATHWAY HOME FOR PEOPLE CURRENTLY SERVING LENGTHY PRISON TERMS IN CALIFORNIA PRISONS. WE REPRESENT PEOPLE IN THEIR PAROLE HEARINGS AND HABEAS PETITIONS, AND WE ENGAGE IN LITIGATION AND POLICY ADVOCACY TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. WE ALSO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR PEOPLE IN PRISON, ATTORNEYS, FAMILY MEMBERS, AND LAW STUDENTS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE OVERALL QUALITY OF PREPARATION FOR AND REPRESENTATION IN PAROLE HEARINGS. OUR CLIENTS CANNOT BE RELEASED FROM PRISON UNLESS AND UNTIL THEY HAVE PARTICIPATED IN COUNSELING AND OTHER TRAINING PROGRAMS, AND CAN SHOW THE CALIFORNIA PAROLE BOARD THEY CAN SAFELY REJOIN THEIR COMMUNITIES. WE HELP THEM GET READY TO MAKE THAT SHOWING. false false 3921937 Legal:- Saw 12 of our clients come home to their communities - Filed 10 habeas corpus petitions (6 Superior, 3 Court of Appeal, 1 CA Supreme Court) - Delivered 23 consultations - Supported 61 parole hearings - Achieved a 59% grant rate in parole hearings completed Policy: - Sponsored AB2310, the Parole Hearing Language Accessibility Act, requiring the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) to: translate essential documents into the give most commonly spoken languages among incarcerated individuals eligible for parole hearings; develop and publish bilingual glossaries of parole hearing terminology; and promulgate regulations establishing standards for interpreter qualifications, verifying interpreter credentials, and protocols for providing interpreter services during attorney visits. - Obtained a landmark dataset through a Public Records Act (PRA) to support deeper analysis of parole hearing outcomes from 2012 - 2024. In-Prison Programming:- Graduated 42 participants from our 10-month Home After Harm, Pathways for Parole Success, along with three Peer Mentor graduates, and enrolled 80 new participants total at California State Prison, Los Angeles County (LAC) and Salinas Valley State Prison for graduations in 2025. From our graduates:100% understood the parole hearing process as a result of the program - 97% knew how to articulate and connect the events in their lives that led to incarceration - 100% understood how to demonstrate insight in my parole hearing - 97% knew how to mentally and emotionally prepare for my parole hearing - 95% reported an overall positive sense of well-being at the end of the program, and another 95% reported their overall sense of hope and outlook for the future is positive.- Completed seven intensive parole readiness workshops across six prisons with a total of 355 participants. 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