Blog Action Day 2008: The poverty line runs through the courtroom

by Matt Kelley · 2008-10-15 14:05:00 UTC
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Today is Blog Action Day, and thousands of bloggers around the world are posting about the issue of poverty. The connections (and disconnects) between poverty and justice are as obvious as they are many. In the U.S., and in most of the world, you get the justice you pay for. As the U.S. plunges into recession, we're already seeing states with budget shortfalls making cuts across the board. Indigent defense is often among the first to go.

Some recent news from the world of indigent defense:

Matt Kelley is the Online Communications Manager at the Innocence Project and a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Follow him on Twitter @mattjkelley.
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