Massachusetts ballot proposals, including rent control and zoning reforms, face a critical filing deadline today to qualify ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has approved a $20 hourly pay raise for public defenders in an effort to end their ongoing ...

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

Accomplice Ricardo Tomas Jauregui-Moreno testified in Santa Barbara County Superior Court on Monday that he heard gunshots ...

The city of St. Helens is facing another lawsuit over its handling of public records requests. In a lawsuit filed June 30 in ...

Public defenders criticized a “tactical” move in which Baltimore prosecutors dropped and then refiled new attempted murder ...

It remains unclear if the $20 per hour raise, over the next two years, will end the lawyers ongoing work stoppage.

The Public Defender’s Office is getting a new system to assist in processing its growing caseload. County commissioners ...

Dozens of criminal cases are being dismissed in Massachusetts and other states as public defenders refuse to take on new cases until they get a pay raise.

The Franklin County public defenders' union is calling on the Municipal Court judges to protect the public from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The population at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility is down nearly 40% in five years, thanks in part to the working of the Delaware County Public Defender’s Office, its chief reported ...

Earlier in July, the U.S. Judiciary ran out of funds to pay private defense attorneys who augment the Office of the Public Defender by representing indigent federal felony defendants for an hourly ...