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OUR MISSION

We are not licensed attorneys at MOPAC. Anthony Williams, our Director, is a "legal-paraprofessional" that has over 20 years of experience navigating through the state and federal criminal justice system. Our mission is to provide legal "pathways" to freedom for men and women in trapped inside the criminal justice system. We cannot promise any of our clients anything, but that we will use our knowledge and expertise to fight for you if you decide to retain us to advocate for you or your family member's freedom. The MOPAC team cares about the injustice in our system and we fight hard to find legal "pathways" for our clients. Contact Us we will advocate for you!!!

About Anthony Williams

I am Anthony Williams the Founder and Director of Missouri Prisoner Advocacy Consulting, LLC (MOPAC). What motivated me to create MOPAC was the experience I gained from serving 20 years of a wrongful conviction in the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC). During my incarceration I spent a great deal of time studying criminal and appellate law and I worked as a law clerk in the prison law library at the Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) where I worked for (4) four years assisting inmates with their legal research and pro se filings in state and federal court. With that experience I gained a "unique" understanding of the post-conviction and appellate process. I specialized in state and federal habeas corpus litigation primarily which ultimately lead to my wrongful conviction being overturned by a Cole County Circuit Judge in June of 2014. I was released from the MODOC on July 3, 2014 and was quickly hired at the Bukowsky Law Firm in Columbia, Missouri to offer up my skills to attorney Jennifer Bukowsky and her staff. At the Bukowsky Law Firm I honed my skills learning Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Word Press, and an assortment of administrative skills that helped me become a better professional. For approximately (2) two years I evaluated cases for potential appellate and post-conviction litigation for attorney Bukowsky, and worked on a number of pre-trial matters for the law firm as well. In January of 2016 I decided to found MOPAC, LLC and offer up my knowledge and litigation skills directly to attorney's needing help freeing prisoners claiming innocence as a "legal para-professional". Ultimately, through MOPAC I was able to offer my knowledge and skills directly to indigent inmates facing pre-trial and post-conviction legal matters which has been the most rewarding work I've done since my release. I also worked as an advocate speaking for prisoners' rights and fighting to change laws through the Missouri legislature like expungment, changing the juvenile certification age, ending the death penalty and Life w/o parole for juveniles. Since 2016 I've had the opportunity to work with private attorney's, public defenders, law schools, private investigators, the Midwest Innocence Project (MIP), the Incarcerated Advocacy Network (ICAN), Missouri Faith Voices (MFV), the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and a number of other grass-roots and national organizations fighting for criminal justice reform. On behalf of MOPAC I have fought to give back to prisoners and their family's suffering from wrongful convictions inside of our jails and prisons in Missouri and around the country providing legal "pathways" to freedom for men and women who would otherwise be doomed within our system which has been an honor to me and my family, particularly, my wife Bridget Hollis who has supported me in this mission from the beginning.

The condemned Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) a Haunted House filled with ghosts of dead Missouri prisoners

December 6, 2018 by Anthony Williams

Condemned Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) now a Haunted House
Condemned Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) in Jefferson City, Missouri now serves as a Haunted House

I have haunting memories of been confined at the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) as a young teenaged kid that still haunt my dreams today. I was locked down in a tiny cramped old-fashioned jail cell caged in by bars with no windows when I should have been preparing to go to college or start a career in the military, or working a factory job like General Motors, etc. like other young men my age. Instead, I was faced with the possibility of spending the remainder of my young life inside a Missouri prison, an idea itself that gave me nightmares.

Without any physical evidence and merely witness which by all accounts were inconsistent and unbelievable, I was convicted of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole at the tender age of eighteen. Since that day the judge said guilty and sentenced me to die behind bars, my life has not been the same. It has been nearly two decades since my trial and I still find it hard to believe I was wrongfully convicted of a murder that I did not do. Being accused and convicted of anything you didn’t do would be devastating on anyone I would assume, but to be falsely accused and convicted of murder is a very hard pill to swallow.

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Filed Under: Missouri State Penitentiary Tagged With: Criminal Justice Reform, Fighting For The Rights Of The Prisoners, FREE Howard Frazier, FREE Rodney Lincoln, Freed Anthony Williams, Freed George Allen, Freed Rodney Lincoln, Freedom Blog, George Allen, Haunted House, Howard Frazier, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Prisoner Advocacy Consulting, Missouri State Penitentiary, MOPAC, MSP, Rodney Lincoln, Tell Your Story

Missouri Dept. of Corrections & The Missouri Taxpayer

December 3, 2018 by Anthony Williams

Missouri Inmates Attend Rehabilitative Classes
Missouri Inmates Attend Rehabilitative Classes

Warehousing inmates is a serious problem particularly in the state of Missouri. The general public must come to grips with this fact and understand that it does not do our society any good warehousing men and women for many years while neglecting to provide the essential instruction and life skills needed for prisoners to successfully transition back into the community after they’ve been released on probation or parole.

The reality is that there is a lack of rehabilitative and educational programming inside of the jails and prisons spread throughout our state. Sadly, the administrators of the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and many Missouri law makers cannot stomach fixing the problem so they go to great lengths to conceal the deficiency from the public. This is so because the MDOC administrators and politicians satisfied with the way things are know that the one thing that can upset their failing penological policies is an outcry from tax paying citizens who have a vested interest in pressing for sweeping reforms of our criminal justice system. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: MDOC Tagged With: Advocacy, Anthony Williams, Bridget Williams, Criminal Justice Reform, Education, Fighting For The Rights Of The Prisoners, Freed Anthony Williams, Freedom Blog, G.E.D., ICVC, Law Makers, MDOC, Missouri Department of Corrections, Missouri Prisoner Advocacy Consulting, Missouri Tax Payer, MODOC, MoLeg, MOPAC, Programs, Recidivism, ReEntry, Reform, Rehabilitation, Warehousing

You Get The Justice Your Money Can Buy

December 12, 2016 by Anthony Williams


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Wrongful conviction goes against everything we believe in within our society. We were taught from our earliest school to  believe in “innocence until proven guilty.” Like most wrongfully convicted persons, I believed that although I had been arrested and falsely accused of murder, our system would work itself out and I’d be acquitted. I sat in pre-trial detention in the Jackson County jail knowing I’d be acquitted and reclaim my life, but I would be proven wrong. Since the day of my conviction, I have awakened inside a prison cell serving a life term for a crime I did not commit and I have tried to approach each day with positively in spite of my situation. I’ve struggled to push out of my mind the injustice that occurred to me that lead me here and think positive and keep the faith, although I continue witnessing first hand so many negative outcomes that tug at my sense of hope.
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Filed Under: Wrongful Conviction Tagged With: Anthony Williams, Criminal Defense Lawyers, Criminal Justice Reform, Darryl Burton, Eleanor Reasonover, Fighting For The Rights Of The Prisoners, FREE Howard Frazier, Freed Anthony Williams, Freedom Blog, Joseph Amrine, Kansas City, Missouri Prisoner Advocacy Consulting, MOPAC, Prisoner, Prosecuting Attorneys, Rodney Lincoln, Ryan Ferguson, St. Louis, Wrongful Conviction, You Get The Justice You Can Buy

Anthony Williams W/ MOPAC Team at ‘Currency Exchange’ In St. Louis, Missouri on November 13, 2016

November 21, 2016 by Anthony Williams

Anthony Williams and the MOPAC team in St. Louis, Missouri at the Currency Exchange on Grand, Blvd. Anthony highlights the exorbitant fees charged to family members of prisoners transferring money to loved incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC).

#Exploitation #EndMassIncarceration #MOPAC #PrisonIndustrialComplex

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Filed Under: MDOC Tagged With: 13th Amendment, Anthony Robinson, Anthony Williams, Criminal Justice Reform, Exploitation, FreedAnthonyWilliams, Freedom Blog, Media Advocacy, MODOC, MOPAC, Poverty, Prison Industrial Complex

FOR AN ADVOCATE

November 16, 2016 by Anthony Williams

Attorney, Jennifer Bukowsky & Anthony
Anthony Williams and Jennifer Bukowsky, Attorney at Law

Poem written by Anthony Williams while being held inside of the holding cell in the Cole County jail. He was attending the habeas corpus hearing that ultimately determined his freedom. Anthony dedicated this poem to his attorney, Jennifer K. Bukowsky of the Bukowsky Law Firm in Columbia, Missouri.

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Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: 2014, Bukowsky Law Firm, Exonerated, Freed Anthony Williams, Jennifer Bukowsky, July 3

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Anthony Williams was sentenced to Life in Prison at 14 for a crime he didn't commit. Now he fights for the rights of those who society has forgotten.   … Read More

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