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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 473 | Public Defenders Should Tell the Courts and Their Clients How Many Cases they Have w/John Gross 05/07/2026
info_outline 472 | Can Former Public Defenders Improve the Bench in Multnomah County, Oregon? w/Kristine Almquist, Joe Hagedorn, Peter Klym, Joanna Perini-Abott, Chris Behre 05/05/2026
info_outline 471 | The Science of Second Chances w/Jennifer Doleac 04/30/2026
info_outline 470 | Why did the Marion County Public Defenders Decide to Unionize Their Office w/Lucy Frick and Tim Smith 04/28/2026
info_outline 469 | How Tennessee's Mass Incarceration Policies are Making the State less Safe w/Dawn Deaner 04/23/2026
info_outline 468 | How the New Jersey Public Defenders are Integrating AI into their Work w/Jennifer Sellitti 04/21/2026
info_outline 467 | How Coroners Keep How People Die While in Police Custody Hidden from the Public w/Terence Keel 04/16/2026
info_outline 466 | The Lawsuit Challenging How Missouri Treats People with Mental Illness Being Held Pre-Trial w/Maureen Hanlon and Anita Tabb 04/14/2026
info_outline 465 | The Fines and Fees Justice Center's Campaigns to Break the Invisible Shackles of Court Fees and Fines w/Dylan Hayre and Emily King 04/09/2026
info_outline 464 | The Public Defender Hoping to Bring a New Generation of Leadership to Congress w/Vichal Kumar 04/08/2026
info_outline 463 | How the Defenders Association of Philadelphia is Resisting Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda w/Lilah Thompson and Maria Thomson 04/07/2026
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
 
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