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Public Defenseless

Anyone paying attention can tell you that our criminal legal system is perpetuating cruelty and harm, but the complexity of the legal world overwhelms most people simply trying to get through another day. Public Defenseless explores the rot in the justice system and what we can do about it. Join host, Hunter Parnell, as he interviews top defense attorneys and criminal justice stakeholders from across the country as they pull apart the convoluted web of our criminal justice system. Like so many of you, Hunter is not an attorney, simply tired of a news cycle and talking heads that offer no real solutions to the ever-growing list of problems we face. Hunter hopes that with this information, you will share his belief that ordinary people still can make a difference.

info_outline 462 | How Restorative Justice Could Transform What Public Safety Looks Like w/Amanda Carrasco 04/02/2026
info_outline 461 | How to Empower Social Workers in Public Defender Offices w/Kay Edwards 03/30/2026
info_outline 460 | How California's Failure to Fund Public Defense is Hurting Everyone w/Tracie Olson 03/26/2026
info_outline 459 | What will Happen if Washington State does not Figure Out How to Fund Public Defense at the State Level? w/Matt Sanders 03/25/2026
info_outline 458 | How Public Defense is Sold to the Lowest Bidder in Rural California w/Anat Rubin 03/24/2026
info_outline 457 | How Washington Built One of the Best Family Defense Teams in the Country w/Brett Ballew and Tonia McClanahan 03/19/2026
info_outline 456 | How Public Defenders can Help Stop Family Separations w/Mary Anne Mendenhall 03/17/2026
info_outline 455 | What Can be Done to Slow the Spread of Mass Surveillance? w/Jay Stanley 03/12/2026
info_outline 454 | The Public Defender Running to get Ritchie Torres Out of Congress w/Dalourny Nemorin 03/11/2026
info_outline 453 | How America's Mass Surveillance State is Making it More Likely that Your Data Will be Used Against You w/Andrew Ferguson 03/10/2026
info_outline 452 | With a Budget Shortfall Looming, What Comes Next for Maine Public Defense w/Frayla Tarpinian 03/05/2026
info_outline 451 | How the Tough on Crime Lobby Influences Colorado Criminal Justice Policy w/Kyle Giddings and Rebecca Wallace 03/03/2026
info_outline 450 | How Has New York's Bail Reform Laws Impacted Public Safety? w/Rene Ropac 02/26/2026
info_outline 449 | How the People of Minneapolis Organized to Resist ICE, CBP, and DHS w/Brandon Garcia, Maggie Bott, and Bob Kolstad 02/25/2026
info_outline 448 | How the History of the New York Police Department Reveals the Essential Problems with Policing w/Matthew Guariglia 02/24/2026
info_outline 447 | Why did an Oregon Public Defender Sue the Oregon Public Defense Commission? Part 2 w/Stacey Lowe 02/18/2026
info_outline 446 | Why did an Oregon Public Defender Sue the Oregon Public Defense Commission? Part 1 w/Shannon Wilson and Stephen Hanlon 02/17/2026
info_outline 445 | How We Can Improve Public Safety with Mercy and Compassion w/Emily Galvin Almanza 02/16/2026
info_outline 444 | What Can Help Fix the Public Defense Crisis in Rural California? w/Luke Brownfield 02/12/2026
info_outline 443 | Will San Joaquin County Public Defenders be the Next Office to Stop Taking New Cases? w/Judyanne Vallado 02/11/2026
info_outline 442 | How Alameda County Public Defense is Dealing w/Increased Workloads and ICE at the Courthouse w/Brendon Woods 02/10/2026
info_outline 441 | With Dems in Control, Will Virginia Finally Pass More Progressive Criminal Justice Policies? w/Rob Poggenklass and Bryan Kennedy 02/05/2026
info_outline 440 | How Public Defenders Can Build Political Coalitions that Support Criminal Justice Policy Reforms w/Stephen Saloom 02/03/2026
info_outline 439 | The Lawsuit Challenging Louisiana's use of Slave Labor on Angola's Infamous "Farm Line" w/Samantha Pourciau 02/02/2026
info_outline 438 | How to Build Emotional Intelligence Skills in Public Defense w/Ali Bloomquist and Cherise Fanno Burdeen PhD 01/29/2026
info_outline 437 | The Cruelty is the Point: Immigration Detention Expansion Under the Trump Administration w/Aaron Reichlin-Melnick 01/27/2026
info_outline 436 | The New York Laws that Could Chip Away at the State's Mass Incarceration Policies w/Thomas Gant 01/22/2026
info_outline 435 | How Alaska is Punishing American Samoans for Believing They Had the Right to Vote w/Alex Burness 01/21/2026
info_outline 434 | Why is a San Francisco Judge Threatening to hold the Public Defender in Contempt? w/Mano Raju 01/20/2026
info_outline 433 | How Pre-Trial Mitigation Can Save People From Incarceration w/Max Miner 01/15/2026
 
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