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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
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
A Virginia the Martinsville Seven Could Not Have Imagined
Governor Ralph Northam pardoned seven young Black men put to death in 1951— a step forward in addressing Virginia's imperfect criminal justice system.
by
Bob Lewis
via
Virginia Mercury
on
September 7, 2021
The Weight of History
A former Navy lawyer speaks about his decision to leak classified information on detainees at the infamous prison of Guantanamo.
by
Sarah Mirk
,
Alexandra Beguez
via
The Nib
on
September 7, 2020
A Brief Criminal History of the Mask
How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since.
by
Melissa Gira Grant
via
The New Republic
on
April 21, 2020
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