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In defense of indigent defense-how the broken public defense system exacerbates racial disparities

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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In defense of indigent defense-how the broken public defense system exacerbates racial disparities Criminal Justice, Featured ? By Elizabeth Renter September 24, 2010 Race-Talk, A Project of the Kirwan Institute The 6th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees all citizens the right to representation when accused of a criminal offense. While Supreme Court decisions have clarified this to mean ?effective? representation, the system has often failed to live up to this standard. With the majority of criminal defendants turning to the indigent defense system, why are we starving it of funding and compromising this important right? Under the preface of being ?tough on crime? we have continued to pour money into the prison systems, building more and more institutions while spending less and less to help people defend themselves against the criminal accusations that threaten to send them there...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).