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 ...

Public defenders are vowing to continue a push on Beacon Hill for better wages after Gov. Maura Healey signed off on a pay ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has approved a $20 hourly pay raise for public defenders in an effort to end their ...

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.

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