The longtime lawyer has led the Northeastern Judicial Circuit's Public Defender office since its inception in 2004.

CPCS employees, including public defenders and social workers, are pushing for unionization, citing pay and retention issues. A ballot question is in the works for 2026.

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 ...

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 ...

The growing fallout from a public defender work stoppage could now set criminal defendants free across Massachusetts.

Five attorneys at risk of losing their jobs running local public defender offices accused State Public Defender Rémy Starns of discriminating against women in charge of those offices.