Steven Fama
Senior Staff Attorney

Steve joined the Prison Law Office in 1985. Steve works primarily on Plata v. Newsom, a class action lawsuit concerning the provision of medical care in California prisons, and on the Coleman case regarding mental health care in CDCR. Steve worked on Madrid v. Gomez, which challenged the conditions of confinement in the supermax Pelican Bay State Prison. He first met, learned from, and tried to help people in prison in 1976 as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, with a program that worked with San Quentin’s American Indian Cultural Group. As a law student (J.D. 1981, UC Davis King Hall), he worked at the Prisoners Legal Assistance Clinic. He was admitted to the California State Bar in December 1981, and from 1982 to 1984 was a Prisoner Writ Clerk for the federal judges in the Eastern District of California (Sacramento).