Sage Smith
Sage Smith (Photo: Jennifer Linzer)
A. Sage Smith, the Center's director of client services, is a former offender who rehabilitated himself and was educated in prison, earning an associate degree in sociology from Lewis University and paralegal certificate from Rend Lake Junior College.
In prison, Mr. Smith served eight years as coordinator of legal services at the Stateville Correctional Center and seven years as the law clerk for prisoners on death row at the Menard Correctional Center.
After his release in May of 2003, Mr. Smith received a Humanitarian Award from the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty (ICADP) "for his enormous assistance to death row inmates." From his release until he joined the Center in January of 2004, he was employed as a paralegal at the Illinois Institute for Community Law.
Mr. Smith is a member of the advisory boards of the John Howard Association, Positive Anti-Crime Thrust (PACT), and the ICADP. He also is a member of the Governor's Task Force on Re-Entry, a program under the auspices of the Illinois Department of Human Services.
