Blogs

NAPD regularly features writings from public defender members as they respond to relevant events, consider policy questions, summarize relevant case law, or appear as guests on podcasts. The blog posts reflect the diverse perspectives of the national public defense community and do not reflect any formal positions by NAPD. Read them below!

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Podcast

234 | Stephen Hanlon: Case Withdrawals, Federal Funding, and the Five Year Plan to Fix Public Defense in Oregon

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hunter.parnell
May 14, 2024
Podcast

233 | Lee Wachocki: With Almost 3k People Unrepresented, Why is Oregon adding More Cases to the Public Defender Crisis

Author
hunter.parnell
May 7, 2024
Podcast

232 | Robin Bernstein: The New York Prison that Started our For Profit Prison Industry 

Author
hunter.parnell
May 2, 2024
Formerly Incarcerated Podcast

Dorsey Nunn: From Banning the Box to Restoring the Right to Vote, One Man’s Struggle for the Rights of the Current and Formerly Incarcerated

Author
hunter.parnell
May 1, 2024

This I Believe: A Farewell Essay By NAPD’s Heather Hall

Author
heather.hall
April 30, 2024
Podcast

The Voices of Victims and Survivors that Alabama Ignores and Neglects w/Leah Nelson and Callie Greer

Author
hunter.parnell
April 25, 2024
RJ & DEIJ Corner

The RJ & DEIJ Corner: Meetups & Events Recaps (January to March 2024)

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Brittany Gail Thomas, Esq.
April 24, 2024
Podcast

From a 25% Vacancy Rate to Nearly Zero, How the Montana Public Defender System Came Back from the Brink w/Brett Schandelson

Author
hunter.parnell
April 23, 2024
Podcast

Why is this Vitally Important Forensic Science so Rarely Used by Defense Attorneys and the Legal System? w/Dr. Shameka Stewart

Author
hunter.parnell
April 19, 2024