indigent defense

About 70% of people who are facing jail time in Ohio need the services of a public defender, but there’s a shortage of them. Ohio lawmakers are…

Although Ohio legislators failed to hammer out budget differences by Sunday's deadline, resorting instead to a stopgap funding measure, at least one group…

There are a lot of differences that lawmakers are working out in the House and Senate versions of the two-year state budget. But one thing that’s in both:…