Alexander McLean: 'An English Prison Reformer in Africa'

The African Prisons Project (APP) works to bring hope and dignity to prisoners in Africa through education, healthcare, access to justice and reintegration. It is founded by Alexander McLean, then an 18-year old gap year student, when he encountered the horrible conditions in the notorious Luzira maximum security prison for men in Uganda.

The APP has since worked to impact the lives of 25,000 of the poorest and most vulnerable people in prisons in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, including hundreds of condemned inmates in Luzira prison in Kampala.

Alexander is now a barrister and magistrate, and is recently made a TED Global Fellow. He will be speaking at the Law Faculty (Room G24) on Friday, 4 May from 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm, about his experiences and opportunities for students to get involved. For more information, please visit our Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/297770100299550/

A good introduction to the man behind all this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/8432006/An-English-prison-reformer-in-Kampala.html

To know more more about the charity, please go to www.africanprisons.org