Employees of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, including lawyers and social workers, are pushing to unionize and hope to have the issue on the ballot next year.Supporters argue that as state ...

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.

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

More than 100 criminal cases in Boston, including with serious charges such as domestic violence, have been thrown out due to ...

Bueso Monday and brought him to the Butler County Jail. The Franklin County Public Defenders are calling on the Franklin ...

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

The Franklin County public defenders' union is calling on the Municipal Court judges to protect the public from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Imagine a scenario in which a dedicated public defender is facing retirement in three years. Although they have the finances ...

Dozens of criminal cases are being dismissed in Massachusetts and other states as public defenders refuse to take on new cases until they get a pay raise.