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 ...

The Franklin County Public Defender Collective issued a statement Wednesday condemning ICE presence in the county municipal ...

San Francisco has formally accepted a $3.4 million grant from the nonprofit Crankstart Foundation to bolster the city's legal resources for immigrants.

Last month, a work stoppage by lawyers in Massachusetts who represent indigent defendants forced judges to dismiss cases against hundreds of people who had been accused of crimes, including violent ...

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

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

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

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

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

CPCS employees, including public defenders and social workers, are pushing for unionization, citing pay and retention issues.

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.