The Seattle Times profiles two SCP clients whose pardons prevented their deportation.
2025
2024
SCP is featured as a case study in MemoryFox’s 2024 Ethical Storytelling Report.
SCP staff members participated in a Practitioner Q&A for the Journal of Public Interest Communications on lived experience compensation and ethical storytelling practices.
Students from the Seattle Preparatory School interviewed three SCP clients for a panel discussion on second chances, navigating the reentry process, and access to justice in Washington State.
2023
The Seattle Times profiles SCP and features the stories of staff members and clients.
2021
The Seattle Times highlights the problems Washington has faced with the three strikes law.
In a year during which racial and systemic inequities were highlighted, SCP received a big financial boost from a local philanthropic group.
2019
NW News Network highlights how clemency can summarize a person’s entire life in just a few short moments.
UW law students get involved with SCP and learn some of the inequities in the system.
1889 Washington’s Magazine highlights the beginnings of SCP with co-founders Jon Zulauf and Jennifer Smith.
2018
NBC News shows the deportation struggles for Cambodians under the Trump administration.
KING 5 News has done several stories on SCP’s first clemency client, Gary Thomas. Before being released from a life sentence in 2017, Gary painted murals, developed his own artistic approaches, and taught art classes for his peers. Gary was represented by Jon Zulauf, SCP’s Co-founder and former Legal Director. Since his release, Gary has remained devoted to his art, cultivating a home studio with hundreds of original paintings and drawings.
The video on the right is a 2013 story on Gary’s art classes for residents at the Monroe Correctional Complex.
This 2022 story is a look at how Gary has embraced freedom since his successful clemency petition.