There is an ongoing legal and budget battle over the rights of people charged with crimes in Maine who can't afford a lawyer.

The three-day trial over Maine's failure to provide adequate legal representation to low-income defendants concluded today in ...

Maine has spent more than two years debating how to solve a public defense crisis that many say has been in the making for decades. A judge has ruled that our system for providing attorneys to those ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine was in court Wednesday to argue for the widespread release of low-income Mainers who face criminal charges but have not been appointed lawyers.

A judge recently ruled state failed to provide low-income defendants with legal representation. Over the past three days, a ...

The lawsuit, presented in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges Trump's effort to unilaterally ban ...

State Democracy Defenders Fund and the Legal Defense Fund joined the ACLU of Maine in filing the New Hampshire suit on behalf of organizations with members whose children born on U.S. soil could ...

(Photo by Jim Neuger) After a superior court judge found Maine guilty of failing to provide counsel to those who can’t afford it, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine is arguing that people ...

The Penobscot County Jail sent an average of 69 people a day to other Maine jails last year, costing $2.1 million.

A judge ruled this month that hundreds of people in Maine who are constitutionally entitled to legal representation have been effectively denied an attorney. Now, the court must decide what to do ...