Megha Ram
Staff Attorney

Megha joined the Prison Law Office as a staff attorney in 2024. She works on a variety of issues aimed at ending inhumane conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention. Before joining PLO, Megha was Supreme Court and Appellate Counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center and co-instructor of the Prisoners’ Rights Clinic at the UCLA School of Law. In both roles, she litigated civil rights appeals across the country with a focus on challenging poor medical care and violence in jails and prisons. Before joining the MacArthur Justice Center, she clerked for Judge Michael P. Shea on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Megha received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2018 and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, San Diego in 2013. She was admitted to the California Bar in February 2019.