Brennan Center Report on Public Defender Resource Parity

“A Fair Fight: Achieveing Indigent Defense Resource Parity” highlights how many of the issues that affect our criminal justice system today — overly long sentences, racial bias, wrongful convictions — are exacerbated by overwhelmed indigent defense systems. Solutions outlined in the paper range from funding state-level indigent defense from general revenue, to setting state-specific workload … Continue reading Brennan Center Report on Public Defender Resource Parity