{"id":4003,"date":"2011-10-23T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:41","slug":"speaker-series-laura-caldwell-j-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2011\/10\/23\/speaker-series-laura-caldwell-j-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Series &#8211; Laura Caldwell: Life after Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1717-finalCaldwell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1717-finalCaldwell-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1717-finalCaldwell-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1717-finalCaldwell.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Guest:<\/strong><br \/>\nLaura Caldwell, J.D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Book:<\/strong><br \/>\nLong Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and<br \/>\nthe Two Women Who Found Him<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; Location:<\/strong><br \/>\nThursday, October 27, 2011<br \/>\n6:00 p.m.<br \/>\nRichard Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor<br \/>\nLake Shore Campus<br \/>\n1032 West Sheridan<\/p>\n<p>There are currently over 70 innocence projects in the U.S.,<br \/>\ngroups which work to free innocent people from prison. But until<br \/>\na Loyola Law professor, Laura Caldwell, and her students began<br \/>\nLife After Innocence 2 years ago, there was no organization<br \/>\nfocusing on assisting \u2018exonerees\u2019 to start their lives over. The<br \/>\nprogram was inspired by a client Caldwell represented pro bono<br \/>\nin a murder trial, a nineteen-year-old who was in a county jail<br \/>\nwith no trial for six years. Caldwell writes about the experience<br \/>\nin Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him, and will discuss the book, as well as Life After Innocence on October 27.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Caldwell is also the author of eleven novels.<\/p>\n<p>This is a free event registration is requested, RSVP online at <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.luc.edu\/site\/Calendar?id=109726&amp;view=Detail\">Alumni Relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Guest: Laura Caldwell, J.D. Featured Book: Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him Date &amp; Location: Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:00 p.m. Richard Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor Lake Shore Campus 1032 West Sheridan There are currently over 70 innocence projects in the U.S., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}