Low-income people are disproportionately present in both the criminal justice system and wrongful convictions. A huge cause of this is ineffective assistance of counsel perpetuated by the public defender system. Public defenders—attorneys who represent people who cannot afford to hire an attorney—suffer from massive, unmanageable caseloads, and they are often chronically underfunded, meaning that they … Continue reading Poverty
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