We are honored to have Elizabeth Kelley as the January speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.

Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckd-mhqT4rG9dQ4J28SDgASUBLtoRvI1fY

Elizabeth Kelley is a criminal defense lawyer based in Spokane, Washington, with a nationwide practice specializing in representing people with mental disabilities. She is the editor of four books published by the American Bar Association (ABA): Representing People with Mental Disabilities: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers; Representing People with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers; Suicide and Its Impact on the Criminal Justice System (with Francesca Flood) and Representing People with Dementia: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers, October 2022 (scheduled). She co-chaired The Arc’s National Center for Criminal Justice and Disability Advisory Board and served three terms on the board of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). She is active in the ABA, serving as a Vice President of the Criminal Justice Section Council, the Editorial Board of Criminal Justice Magazine, and having served on the ABA’s Commission on Disability Rights and as an observer at the hearings at Guantanamo. She currently serves as the Editor of the ABA’s Annual publication, The State of Criminal Justice.

Website: www.elizabethkelleylaw.com

We are a community of individuals, families and groups with white collar justice issues who have a desire to take responsibility for our actions and the wreckage we caused, make amends, and move forward in new way of life centered on hope, care, compassion, tolerance and empathy. Our experience shows us that many of us are suffering in silence with shame, remorse, and deep regret. Many of us have been stigmatized by our own families, friends and communities, and the business community. Our goal is to learn and evolve into a new spiritual way of life and to reach out in service to others. Over 550 Fellow Travelers have participated in our support group meetings.

Thank you for referring justice-impacted people and families: [email protected]. Fellow Traveler volunteers handle information inquiries and intakes.

For press/media inquiries: [email protected]. 

IMPORTANT!: If you are currently on supervised release, probation or parole, it is important that you first discuss this with your P.O. To assist in this regard, information about our ministry is available on prisonist.org.

For details, invitation or to make referrals...

Also, White Collar Week Podcast: An Evening with Our White Collar Support Group. 16 support group members share their stories. Link here.

While many lawyers also struggle with mental health issues, attorneys often view the mental health of clients as "outside the purview of what they're hired to do — it's just not their job," Grant says. That's one of the main reasons he says he created the support group, the only one of its kind in the country that he's aware of, for people accused of white collar crimes. "We've had over 550 people who have participated in our support group as members...," he says.

"The people who you would imagine would most know about the stresses and trauma of the criminal justice system just don't do any type of counseling at all," Grant says, referring to lawyers, who also have little guidance on dealing with clients with mental health issues..."

Link to Law360 article: https://www.law360.com/articles/1559298/white-collar-attorneys-learn-to-ask-clients-are-you-ok-

What an amazing day and evening. Huge thanks to our panelists Seth Williams, Bill Baroni, Michele Weinstat Miller, and Jeff Wertkin for your courage and candor in telling your stories, to all our White Collar Support Group members and other ABA criminal justice conference attendees for your support, and to the 15 of us who shared love and laughter - and great food - at Carmine’s. Truly one of the greatest days of my life. I am truly blessed and grateful! - Jeff

Details: Lawyers convicted and incarcerated for white collar or nonviolent crimes will share their stories, experiences and difficulties during prosecution and reentering society after prison, and will make recommendations as to how the white collar bar and criminal justice system can be more effective, humane and merciful towards white collar defendants (and their families) while better fulfilling their obligation to enhance rehabilitation through diversion and other alternatives to incarceration. Please join us if you will be in the DC area!

Moderator: Jeffrey D. Grant, Esq.

Panelists: R. Seth Williams, Bill Baroni, Esq., Michele Weinstat, Esq., Jeffrey Wertkin

Watch the Video:

Please make your check payable to "Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.," a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and send to our mailing address: P.O. Box 1, Woodbury, CT 06798. All donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. 

Or, please make your online donation here: