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Plain Talk: ND Legislature stepped up with funding to move public defenders 'in the right direction'

MINOT — The criminal justice system is often where public policy debates, from civil rights to addiction, converge. It's also critical for ensuring accountability when the government oversteps. North Dakota's Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents, led by Director Travis Finck, headed into this year's legislative session facing a "perilous situation," that was dangerously close to a "constitutional failure" due to a lack of

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Wait times for public defenders in Penobscot County have plummeted

The “nerdy” changes within Penobscot County’s criminal justice system are what District Defender Logan Perkins is most proud of during her first year on the job. Until last year, people arriving at the Penobscot County Judicial Court for their arraignments did not get a copy of the charges against them nor the police report for their case. That made it difficult for employees of the Highlands Region Public Defenders Office, which covers Penobsco…

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