Justice Defenders trains incarcerated people and prison staff side by side as paralegals and lawyers to serve those denied justice.

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Access to justice is a human right. We defend it because more than three million people in prison worldwide have not been convicted of a crime.

170,000 clients served

Providing free legal advice to incarcerated people without access to justice in Kenya and Uganda.


69,000 people released

Reuniting formerly incarcerated people with their families and the communities they call home.


700 paralegals trained

Equipping incarcerated people and prison officers to defend themselves and others in court.


67 law graduates

Earning Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of London while in prison or as prison staff.

Numbers updated: November 2025

Meet the
Defenders

“There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.”

Saint Óscar Romero

Our transformative work
has been featured in the
media for over twenty years.

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