Category: Courts Budget

A lawyer makes the case for Civil Gideon

A big part of the border crisis involving unaccompanied minors from Central America is legal representation. If the refugees have legal representation, they tend to remain in the United States. Without legal representation, most are sent back. But… Read More

L.A. Moves To Disassemble Part Of ‘School-To-Prison Pipeline’

As the nation watches racially heated events in Ferguson, Missouri unfold, the city of Los Angeles is going about disassembling what critics have called its “schools-to-prison” pipeline, ending policies that turned school issues into police issues. But the… Read More