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Reimagining the Public Defender
For the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, the criminal justice system in the United States is essentially a plea-and-probation system.
by
Sarah A. Seo
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 11, 2021
A Vestige of Bigotry
The Supreme Court and non-unanimous juries.
by
Andrew Cohen
via
The Marshall Project
on
September 25, 2017
How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?
Without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness before the law.
by
Matthew Clair
via
The Nation
on
December 14, 2020
The Socialist Origins of Public Defense
The right to public defense wasn’t granted by elites. It was won by socialist-led mass movements.
by
Sam Natale
,
John Sadek
via
Jacobin
on
June 25, 2019
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