Legal aid providers face funding cuts in programs that provide assistance to the poor across Mississippi.
At the quarterly meeting of the Access to Justice Commission in Jackson on Aug. 19, service providers described loss of federal funds and more potential cuts as they search for ways to continue meeting the civil legal needs of poor people.
Gayla Carpenter Sanders, Executive Director of the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project, leads an ongoing effort to recruit lawyers in private practice to give pro bono service. “The private bar has to step in. The money may go away, but the cases will not go away,” she said…