Douglas Noll And Laurel Kaufer Win 2012 California Lawyer Attorney Of The Year Award For Pro Bono Project Prison Of Peace

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Professional Mediators Douglas E. Noll and Laurel G. Kaufer have won the 2012 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for their pro bono project, Prison of Peace. Prison of Peace provides communication, mediation, and peacemaking skills to inmates at Valley State Prison for Women, a maximum-security prison in Chowchilla, CA. Kaufer and Noll, both professional Mediators created Prison of Peace, in late 2009, in response to a written request Kaufer received from Susan Russo. Russo, who is serving "life without parole," felt that mediation skills would help life and long-term inmates diminish the violence in their prison. The program began in early 2010.

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