Molly Crane

Molly Crane is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at FAMM. Her work focuses on developing the first state-level clearinghouse to pair people with critical illnesses in state prisons with a network of lawyers and doctors to advocate for compassionate release, as well as seeking systemic changes to compassionate release. Molly hopes this fellowship with FAMM can start to transform state compassionate release from broken and underutilized into a functioning path to decarceration.

Molly is grateful to have spent her life advocating alongside people harmed by the criminal legal system, including people tortured in solitary confinement; youth denied access to special education while in prison; elders held in carceral facilities despite their severe medical needs; humans denied second chances and sentenced to death; trans women discriminated against by corrections officers; people with disabilities held in immigration detention; water protectors criminalized for their courageous resistance; and children targeted by the police. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, and received the Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award. Molly‘s Equal Justice Works Fellowship is sponsored by the Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation.