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A Call to Albany: Restore Foreclosure Funding
Mark Ladov, Nabanita (Neeta) Pal

Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal failed to include a much-needed restoration of the $25 million appropriation for foreclosure prevention assistance, which last year’s budget eliminated.

January 20, 2012
Closing the Justice Gap
New Report Highlights Successes, Challenges in Foreclosure Mediation
Mark Ladov, Nabanita (Neeta) Pal

As our nation’s foreclosure crisis has deepened one critical response has been the expansion of mediation programs across the country.

January 13, 2012
Closing the Justice Gap
What Would Lindsay Lohan Pay?
Roopal Patel, Meghna Philip

A plan in California to charge inmates for their stay in local jails is short-sighted and fiscally insensible.

December 22, 2011
Reducing Mass Incarceration
Reforming Criminal Justice Debt
Meghna Philip

The Brennan Center hosted a panel last week to highlight successful efforts to lessen criminal justice debt.

December 15, 2011
Reducing Mass Incarceration
Foreclosure Mill Grinds to a Halt
Roopal Patel

Closing Steven J. Baum's "foreclosure mill" is just one of many necessary steps to ensure fairness and due process for New York homeowners.

November 29, 2011
Closing the Justice Gap
Reality and the Right to Counsel in Maryland
Sarah Hook

The right to court-appointed counsel is now common knowledge, but the devil is in the details.

November 29, 2011
Reducing Mass Incarceration
Continue Fight for National Criminal Justice Commission
Molly Alarcon

Despite the Senate’s recent rejection of a bill to create a bipartisan commission to study the nation’s criminal justice system, the idea enjoys widespread support from across the political spectrum.

November 2, 2011
Reducing Mass Incarceration
SCOTUS Ruling Won’t Fix Appalling Michigan Indigent Defense System
Thomas Giovanni, Laura Abel

On Halloween, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case illustrating how people and society suffer when indigent defense systems are chronically underfunded. The Court will decide whether the Constitution is violated when an attorney’s advice to reject a plea bargain is based on a laughably poor legal error.

October 28, 2011
Reducing Mass Incarceration
Holding Our Nation to Its Promise
Laura Klein Abel

Attorney General Eric Holder recognized me as a Champion of Change for helping low-income people get their day in court. The real heroes are those who fight daily in court to protect their lives and their families.

October 24, 2011
Closing the Justice Gap
Rethinking Criminal Justice Debt
Rebekah Diller

As states struggle to close persistent budget gaps, they are searching for ways to raise revenue. But imposing more fees on those in the criminal justice system is not the answer.

October 21, 2011
Reducing Mass Incarceration

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