The Universal PD Experience

If you haven't checked out Ruth's fairly new PD blog, Of a Public Defender's Life, you really should. Reading many of her posts, I feel like I'm reading about some of my own experiences. Every public defender office is different, but there are some experiences that do seem universal, and she has captured a number of them. Recently, she lamented the problems of the mentally ill in the criminal justice system, and the general lack of resources from support staff to office supplies in a public defender office. Good reads.