FORDHAM LAW NEWS — This year’s Student Week Against Mass Incarceration (SWAMI), held between Feb. 28 and March 4, brought together social justice-focused groups from across the Fordham Law community in a series of events that examined the relationship between mass incarceration and the housing crisis. The week of events at Fordham Law was co-sponsored by Advocates for the Incarcerated, Fordham Law Defenders, Housing Advocacy Project, Suspension Representation Project, Education Law Collaborative, People’s Parity Project, Coalition of Concerned Students, Fordham Law Advocates for Voter Rights, Fordham Information Law Society, the Stein Scholars fellows, and the Center on Race, Law and Justice. SWAMI is organized annually at the national level by the National Lawyers Guild.  “The purpose of the Student Week Against Mass Incarceration is to raise awareness about issues that are underrepresented,” said Eli Salamon-Abrams ’22, co-president of the Fordham Law Defenders, who helped organize events for the week. “A big part of this is presenting students with more knowledge on the issues that you can work on as a lawyer that can make an impact for people who are affected by these really oppressive systems, especially people of color and people living in poverty.”