by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Jan. 21 the American Bar Association released a two-year study of Oregon’s public defense system and attorney workloads, affirming what public defenders have known for years: They are under-resourced, overwhelmed and have unsustainable caseloads. The ABA...
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
As general counsel to the National Association for Public Defense (NAPD), law professor Stephen F. Hanlon, J.D., is taking on a monumental challenge: to put an end to 50 years of what he claims is a broken criminal justice system as it relates to indigent defense....
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
In November 2015, word spread through New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward that people were DJing and shooting a music video at the neighborhood’s Bunny Friend Park. Soon, several hundred people were packed into the one-square-block park, held in by a chain-link...
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Stephen F Hanlon is a longtime public interest and civil rights trial lawyer whose practice has focused on the intersection of law and public policy. He has successfully fought for systemic change for public defenders and their clients in many states. He now sees a...
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Summing it Up: My Work on Public Defender Workload Studies and Litigation to Enforce Their Conclusions Over the Last Ten Years; and The Way Forward to End the Criminal Processing System and Turn it Into a Criminal Justice System
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
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