Family Incarceration Shaped My Decision to Go Into Criminal Law

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Mick Guile is a first-year law student who wants to go into criminal law because they grew up with a father who is incarcerated.

This story was copublished with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education. Sign up for College Inside, a newsletter about the future of postsecondary education in prison. Mick Guile is a first-year law student studying at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore. As an undergraduate at Temple University, she received a scholarship from ScholarCHIPS, a nonprofit organization that supports the children of incarcerated parents.

I'm a Black person. That just doesn't feel right. And I had a professor who said, ‘Would you rather there be no Black people in the prosecutor's office? Would you rather it be all white people doing this job?’ I thought about it for a while, but then I just kept thinking about my dad. I would like to become a judge one day, but that also puts me in the same position where the time would probably come where I would have to say, ‘Yeah, take that guy away.

 

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