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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 419 | Why did The CJA Panel in New Mexico Stop Accepting New Cases? w/Ryan Villa 11/19/2025
info_outline 418 | The Organization Trying to Help More than 195,000 Afghan Allies Find Safety w/Shawn VanDiver 11/18/2025
info_outline 417 | How a Jailhouse Lawyer Challenged Louisiana's Mass Incarceration from Inside Angola Prison w/Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull 11/13/2025
info_outline 416 | How Louisiana Built the Project of Mass Incarceration w/Nick Weldon and Eric Seiferth 11/11/2025
info_outline 415 | How the Detroit Justice Center is Helping People Eliminate Their Court Fines and Fees w/Nancy A. Parker and Rubina Mustafa 11/06/2025
info_outline 414 | How California Built a Database to Track Police Misconduct w/Katey Rusch 11/05/2025
info_outline 413 | How New Mexico Joined in On the Fight to End Harmful Court Fines and Fees w/Joanna Weiss 11/04/2025
info_outline 412 | How Pre-Trial Services Can Reduce Incarceration w/David Bennett 10/30/2025
info_outline 411 | How Private Criminal Defense Lawyers Are Trying to Solve Colorado's Rural Attorney Shortage Crisis w/Kristin Ladd, Mesa Anderson, and Blue Daniels 10/29/2025
info_outline 410 | How to Meet the Needs of Incarcerated Women w/Emily Salisbury 10/28/2025
info_outline 409 | How Will Maryland Public Defense Handle It's Workload Crisis and a Slate of New Criminal Law Policies w/Natasha Dartigue 10/23/2025
info_outline 408 | How Georgia's New "Tough on Crime" Laws Could Make Communities Even Less Safe w/Blake Feldman 10/21/2025
info_outline 407 | How Hennepin County has Expanded the Right to Counsel to Civil Legal Issues w/ Jeanette Boerner, Jessica Ryan and Terrance Hendricks 10/16/2025
info_outline 406 | How the Cook County Prosecutor Has Made it Harder for the Wrongfully Convicted to Find Justice w/Dan Hinkel 10/15/2025
info_outline 405 | How The Miami Public Defenders Got Their Workloads Under Control w/Carlos Martinez 10/14/2025
info_outline 404 | How Enforcing Workload Standards Changed the Culture and the Future of Montana Public Defense 10/10/2025
info_outline 403 | Is this the Start of Public Defense Expanding in Mississippi? w/Andre de Gruy 10/09/2025
info_outline 402 | Defense Lawyering in the Progressive Prosecution Era w/Jenny Roberts 10/07/2025
info_outline 401 | Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back w/Joshua Clark Davis 10/02/2025
info_outline 400 | Why the Lawyers Handling 80% of Massachusetts's Public Defender Cases Stopped Taking New Cases w/Shira Diner 10/01/2025
info_outline 399 | Unequal Scales: California's Investment Disparity Between Prosecution and Public Defense w/Caneel Fraser and Tatyana Kaplan 09/30/2025
info_outline 398 | How Public Defenders can Combat Copaganda w/Alec Karakatsanis 09/25/2025
info_outline 397 | The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories that Define Them w/John J Lennon 09/23/2025
info_outline 396 | What Will it Take to Revive the Jury? w/Will Snowden 09/18/2025
info_outline 395 | A New Partners for Justice Toolkit to Help Public Defenders w/Vichal Kumar 09/17/2025
info_outline 394 | What Can Data Tell us About New York's Discovery Reform? w/Michael Rempel and Anna Stenkamp 09/16/2025
info_outline 393 | Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement w/Christopher Blackwell 09/11/2025
info_outline 392 | Can Public Defenders Become a Greater Check on the Three Branches of Government? w/Chesa Boudin and Eric Fish 09/09/2025
info_outline 391 | Debating The Problems and Promises of the Public Defender National Workload Study Part 2 w/Bob Boruchowitz 09/02/2025
info_outline 390 | Debating the Problems and Promises of the Public Defender National Workload Study Part 1 w/John Gross 09/02/2025
 
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