[news] Public Defenders Need to Go On Strike

[Resist!ca]

The situation with underfunded public defenders, and plea bargains being thrown around more often than not, with poor people caught in the mix, denied the rights given them legally, to fair and proper representation, needs to stop. Now. This is no longer a situation where public defenders can stand around and keep pointing fingers at those funding them, usually the state. At a certain point, public defenders become accomplices in these crimes against the poor of inadequate, insufficient, incomprehensible, defense for serious crimes in America's Criminal Justice System. Something must be done and I think what needs to be done is Public Defenders need to go on strike. Seriously.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/15749/203