Public Defenders

Life

Should Public Defenders Be Tweeting?

02.18.21

By Janet Manley
Need a Lawyer? Trump Wants to Make it Harder if You’re Poor

06.30.17

By Max Rivlin-Nadler
What Being a Defense Lawyer Taught Me About the War on Drugs

04.13.17

By James Forman, Jr.
News

Prosecutors want to know why billionaire drug lord El Chapo needs a public defender

01.31.17

By Keegan Hamilton
Could Removing Brock Turner’s Judge Hurt Poor and Minority Defendants?

06.16.16

By Maurice Chammah
Do Public Defenders Spend Less Time on Black Clients?

05.03.16

By Maurice Chammah
How the Legal System in New Orleans Is Screwing the Poor

03.22.16

By Max Rivlin-Nadler
New Orleans’s Cash-Strapped Public Defenders Are Refusing to Take on Serious Felonies

01.12.16

By Max Rivlin-Nadler
How to Repair the Criminal Justice System

10.05.15

By Various Authors
Our Right to an Attorney Is in Jeopardy

10.05.15

By Max Rivlin-Nadler
News

Gitmo for the Poor: States Leave Impoverished Inmates in Legal Limbo

09.24.14

By Mary Emily O'Hara