Alison Hardy
Supervising Staff Attorney

Alison joined the Prison Law Office in 1988 with a Berkeley Law Foundation grant to advocate for incarcerated people with HIV/AIDS. After a brief stint in Oregon where she set up a prisoner’s rights project, Alison returned to PLO, focusing primarily on healthcare issues in California and Arizona prisons and Fresno County Jail. She works primarily on Plata v. Newsom and Hall v. County of Fresno. She has tried cases challenging conditions for people with serious medical and mental illnesses and developmental disabilities, and people living on death row. She earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University, and her J.D. at UCLA in 1988. She was admitted to the California State Bar in December 1988.