The San Francisco public defender’s office has, for months, said that it does not have enough lawyers to handle the influx of criminal cases District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is prosecuting. Now, ...

Louisiana board votes 5-4 to uphold firing of five lead public defenders Dismissals spark legal threats and accusations of retaliation Majority of board members were recently appointed Allegations ...

A Louisiana board on Monday narrowly rejected appeals from five top parish public defenders who sought to keep their jobs after the state public defender said he would not renew their contracts. In a ...

THANK YOU. JOYCE OVERWHELMING CASELOADS AND NOT ENOUGH LAWYERS TO DEFEND PLAINTIFFS. RIGHT NOW, KENTUCKY IS STRUGGLING TO RETAIN PUBLIC DEFENDERS, AND ADVOCATES ...

Five attorneys at risk of losing their jobs running local public defender offices accused State Public Defender Rémy Starns of discriminating against women in charge of those offices. It’s the latest ...

A DC-based public defender and her Jan. 6 defendants take on America’s epidemic of division. At a critical juncture in our nation’s history, Public Defender, an award-winning documentary film, ...

The Office of the Federal Public Defender in Little Rock, which just celebrated 30 years, is looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and optimism as the offices around the nation face ...

URBANA — Christopher Tichenor sat at a table shuffling papers inside a courtroom in Champaign County. Over the next 90 minutes, the assistant public defender would handle case after case for ...

SALEM, Ore. — A nonprofit public defense firm in Marion County is suing the Oregon agency in charge of indigent defense, alleging that the state's new contract for the attorneys it oversees violates ...

This story was produced andoriginally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. It was made possible bydonors like you. Tracy Germait has waited more than two years for a public ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Five attorneys who run local public defender offices in Louisiana -- including Caddo Parish -- were replaced Tuesday even as the question of whether they have been rightfully ...