Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has ...

From Oregon to Massachusetts, states are struggling to maintain a roster of attorneys to take on public defense cases. The ...

So-called "bar advocates"  — private attorneys who take on the criminal cases of indigent defendants — have stopped accepting ...

The current appropriations marks for the federal public defender program are more than $100 million short of what they need to be to keep the system functioning.