Mary Graw Leary, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, was recently quoted on NPR's KCRW Morning Edition based in Southern California. The story focused on the mistreatment of women inside a federal prison and their advocates seeking freedom for those women under a program known as compassionate release. The program allows individuals in prison to seek early release due to extraordinary and compelling circumstances.

Morning Edition (KCRW)
Date: October 28, 2022
By: Carrie Johnson 
Advocates seek compassionate release for women sexually abused while incarcerated

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Mary Graw Leary, a legal scholar at the Catholic University School of Law who focuses on victims and their rights, has not studied the misconduct at the prison in California. But, Graw Leary said, "incarcerated people are extremely vulnerable to victimization and we have to have processes in place to protect them from the power differential that is inherent in incarceration."

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