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 ...

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 ...

Bueso Monday and brought him to the Butler County Jail. The Franklin County Public Defenders are calling on the Franklin ...

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.