His daughter and partner, Anna Cayton-Holland convinced him to return to human rights work, and their practice took on four Guantanamo captives.
While a law student at UCLA Holland interned with the Zuni Legal Aid Society in New Mexico.
[3] Upon graduation he received a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship, which allowed him to work for three years for the Denver Legal Aid Society.
One area Holland specialized in has been the legal issues around nursing homes.
[5] Mohammed Al Amin, a Mauritanian youth, who was seventeen years old when he was captured, was released on September 26, 2007.