Great news from PA! @wrencollective.bsky.social

FAMM Foundation@famm.org · 9mo ago

!!! BREAKING !!! HB 150 has passed the PA House of Representatives! HB 150 is a bipartisan bill that seeks to expand access to medically-based relief for incarcerated people with terminal and serious chronic medical conditions.

Just a devastating investigation by Anat Rubin @calmatters.org on the impact of flat-fee defense contracts, as told through the lens of one firm in the state. One stat: of 2,000 cases resolved, they investigated just 9. calmatters.org/investigatio...

The WalMart of public defense: How justice goes to the lowest bidder in rural California

The Ciummo firm has become the face of the privatization of California’s public defense. Even their courtroom adversaries wish they’d put up more of a fight.

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California’s public defense system is in crisis. “Flat-fee” contracts are a big reason why. A new report sheds light on how these agreements privatize indigent defense and lead to worse representation and higher incarceration around the state.