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

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

The chief federal public defender in Washington, D.C., has been at the center of an unprecedented scramble to find lawyers for the wave of suspects charged in the investigation of the Capitol ...

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.