This report examines different ways public defender offices across the country are working to transform the indigent defense system. Even by starting small, offices can lay the foundation for broader reforms of the criminal justice system.
This report examines the myriad problems that criminal justice debt collection policies, proposes areas that advocates can target for reform, and presents action materials to build a successful campaign to fight for more just policies.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote recently, “Criminal justice in America today is mostly a system of pleas, not a system of trials.” But how well does plea-bargaining work? Is justice being done? Thomas Giovanni appears on the American Voices segment of PBS Need to Know.
California voters have the opportunity to eliminate some of the worst elements of their state's "three-strikes" law, which is widely held to be the harshest in the nation.
In advance of the second session of the Supreme Court's 2011 term, the Brennan Center calls attention to five cases involving important issues of access to justice, national security, and civil liberties.
