{"id":28826,"date":"2011-10-18T03:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T03:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-gazette_report_says_pennsylvania_failing_the_poor_in_courts\/"},"modified":"2011-10-18T03:06:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T03:06:01","slug":"post-gazette_report_says_pennsylvania_failing_the_poor_in_courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28826","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Gazette) Report says Pennsylvania failing the poor in courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A draft of a report to be released next month calls for the creation of a statewide office in Pennsylvania to oversee the representation of poor people in the criminal justice system, concluding that the current system &#8220;labors under an obsolete, purely localized system, a structure that impedes efforts to represent clients effectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the draft, 151-page report is highly critical of the current state of indigent defense in the commonwealth &#8212; Pennsylvania is the only state that provides no funding to defend the poor &#8212; it suggests that the statewide office incorporate the current county-by-county structure of the public defenders&#8217; offices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/11290\/1182768-53.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A draft of a report to be released next month calls for the creation of a statewide office in Pennsylvania to oversee the representation of poor people in the criminal justice system, concluding that the current system &#8220;labors under an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28826\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,114,151,88,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}