With her legal clinic students, Elveris has provided legal education to female and male inmates in prisons in Istanbul for more than ten years. Lasting nine weeks each year, the program has become one of the longest programs ever held in prisons. The course brought together inmates who were convicted for various offenses and Year 3 and 4 law students.
Elveris prepared the curriculum to meet the needs of the prisoners both in prison and when released. These needs included issues about appointing a guardian (representative); the deletion of criminal records; landlord-tenant relationships; family law etc. The goal of the program was to show that the law which generally has played a punitive role in their lives also could also accommodate rights and liberties.
Thanks to this program, Elveris worked with the prison administration, the education unit and prison guards.
She closely observed situations such as loneliness, depression, mental health issues and deteriorating family relationships whilst in prison. She taught corrections? Can you elaborate here what you mean by corrections?for years and took students to places such as probation services as well as penitentiary institutions. She invited correctional judges, the Ministry of Justice’s Penitentiary and Detention Houses unit, and the prosecutors in correctional capacities to the classroom. She co-wrote articles on the amendments of correctional legislation that were introduced during the Covid pandemic.
