Alicia Virani ’11 (far right) stands with members of the Bail Practicum in 2019. UCLA Law clinics have participated in a lawsuit seeking to protect prisoners during the COVID-19 crisis.
Alicia Virani ’11 (far right) stands with members of the Bail Practicum in 2019. UCLA Law clinics have participated in a lawsuit seeking to protect prisoners during the COVID-19 crisis.

Members of three UCLA School of Law clinics are part of a coalition including people who are incarcerated in Los Angeles County jails, lawyers and activists that has sued the county and county sheriff’s department seeking the release of medically vulnerable people and the implementation of heightened health and safety standards in jails during the coronavirus pandemic.

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