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Public defender offices are funded by the state and they are terribly under funded. http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_gideon_revolution http://www
by Clubber 9y ago
Public defender offices are funded by the state and they are terribly under funded.
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_gideon_revolution http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_gideon_revolu...
Because not much political upside to helping criminal defendants exists, many jurisdictions end up with a perennial funding problem ... In both cases, the committee heard about extreme funding shortfalls, excessive caseloads and insufficient pay.
After years of cuts, his budget was down from $9 million to about $6 million, and he had just eight investigators for 21,000 cases per year.
This matters because the majority of defendants—a 2014 study put it at 80 percent—use some kind of indigent defense. That means most Americans charged with a crime are at risk of bad outcomes partly caused by the quality of representation that they can afford.
- virmundi 9y agoThis is where I'd love to see rappers that care about their community out there money. Increase public defender funds. So many predominantly black folk go to jail because they lack the resources to fight the corrupt system.
- jjawssd 9y ago"out there money." -- what is meant by this?
- brepl 9y agoput their money
- CaptSpify 9y agoI'm not sure on the best way to handle this, but it seems like this should come from tax money, rather than donation money. Relying on donations to make sure our justice system is working seems like the wrong solution.
- virmundi 9y agoI don't want to rely on it. I just think this would be one of the best public works rappers can do. "Fuck the police"? Sure with good lawyers that don't just cut a deal.
- pizza 9y agoBlack Lives Matter organized something similar this year for Mother's Day https://www.thenation.com/article/this-mothers-day-black-lives-matter-activists-will-give-more-than-30-women-their-freedom/ https://www.thenation.com/article/this-mothers-day-black-liv...