Guest Essays

We Work with Public Defenders, and We Have a Message: The Government Must Stop Criminalizing Mental Illness 

As Partners for Justice advocates embedded in the offices of public defenders, we work to connect clients to resources. In turn, our clients have taught us that to heal this nation, we must learn to respond to social harms and injustice with mercy and an interest in solving problems, rather than exacting punishment.

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