Volunteer Program

Reprieve runs a volunteer program, allowing foreign nationals to donate three months or more of their time as volunteers in criminal defense offices representing poor people facing the death penalty.

Reprieve has successfully conducted this volunteer program for a number of years and has sent nearly 100 interns to death penalty defense offices around the country.

The internship program is ideal for those studying or practicing law or related fields but has attracted broad interest across a range of disciplines. Legal studies are not a prerequisite to participation in the program. Reprieve welcomes applicants from a broad variety of backgrounds.

The program focuses on placing volunteers at death penalty defense offices throughout the deep south and in other areas with critically underfunded indigent defense systems.

The work of our volunteers has proven vital to the offices in which they are placed. All of the offices are non-profits and volunteer workers can often be the only way that these offices are able to meet the demands of their workloads for their clients.

Successful volunteers are marked by an unshakeable opposition to the death penalty and a firm commitment to social justice. They possess the maturity and self-sufficiency needed to meet the demands of both the work and placement in a foreign country.

How to Apply:

If you would like further information, please contact Reprieve UK, if you live in the United Kingdom, Spain or France, or contact Reprieve Australia, if you live in Australia. If you live in a country without a Reprieve partner organization, please contact us directly at interns@reprieve.org.

US volunteers:

If you are an American law school student or lawyer interested in volunteer opportunities in capital defense, contact the our host organization, The Justice Center.

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