About Us
Time Served was founded in 2023 by a team of passionate women lawyers with combined decades of experience in the criminal legal system. Time Served is a South Carolina-grown legal aid organization designed to meet the needs of those most impacted by mass incarceration in our state. Our clients have already overcome immense hurdles, survived traumas, and are ready to be wholly restored to the community.
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing legal services and systems-change advocacy for South Carolinians with prior criminal system involvement. Our clients’ needs vary, from record cleaning for old charges that are still holding them back and family reunification assistance after incarceration, to medical release or parole representation after decades in prison.
Time Served provides legal services free of charge, because we believe that finding the money to hire a lawyer shouldn’t be another barrier that system-impacted people have to overcome in order to break free of the cycle of mass incarceration.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the lives of currently and formerly incarcerated South Carolinians through direct legal services and litigation, and to dismantle extreme sentencing in South Carolina, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations whose criminal system involvement was rooted in part in other traumas and injustices they have experienced.
