2025-2026
Meghan McLeroy is honored to serve as a Borchard Fellow hosted by Redemption Earned. Meghan originally joined Redemption Earned as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. As a Borchard Fellow, Meghan will expand her direct representation of older incarcerated adults seeking parole or compassionate release, including medical parole or medical furlough. She will collaborate with local organizations and entities to identify and assist elderly incarcerated adults whose physical or mental limitations render them in need of advocates to achieve release from prison. She will provide legal representation to these individuals, while helping them navigate systemic and administrative barriers to release, secure placement at skilled care facilities, and connect with essential reentry support and transition services. Meghan will also engage in education and outreach initiatives with local students and other community members and funnel public awareness of Alabama’s rapidly aging prison population into community action.
Meghan graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in May 2023. There, she earned a degree certificate in Public Interest Law while honing her passion for advocacy for vulnerable or underrepresented communities. During law school, Meghan helped develop, pilot, and implement a peer-tutoring program that significantly reduced academic probation rates among Alabama Law students. The program just finished its third year. She also served as a student attorney with the Children’s Rights Clinic, an Articles Editor for the Alabama Law Review, and a Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellow. In March 2023, her peers awarded her the Dean Thomas W. Christopher Award for her outstanding service to the Alabama Law community.
Before joining Redemption Earned, Meghan worked at Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, where she coordinated a mass data collection project aimed at identifying sentencing disparities within Alabama’s prison population.
