Since Jonathan Rapping founded the nonprofit in 2007, he's built a national movement to train and support overburdened public defenders. Gideon's Promise has added white-collar defense veteran Charles ...

When I left off last week telling you about Jonathan Rapping's efforts to reform our court system, his wife, Ilham Askia, had just left her job as a first-grade teacher in the Fulton County Public ...

For more than a decade, Ilham Askia has embraced an audacious mission: To ensure that those most prone to incarceration – young, indigent citizens of color – gain the best defense. As co-founder and ...

The Supreme Court's 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright is a pledge of equal justice under the law. It's up to us to uphold it. A mural in the Empire State Plaza Concourse is seen in this March 18, ...

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Every year, 15,000 public defenders take on more than 5 million new cases. If ever there was an occupation that was undervalued yet so sorely needed, theirs is it. This stirring documentary from ...

Karen Houppert has written a book of nightmares. Houppert, a veteran reporter for, among others, The Washington Post and The New York Times, is the author of “Chasing Gideon: the Elusive Quest for ...

Karen Houppert has written a book of nightmares. Houppert, a veteran reporter for, among others, The Washington Post and The New York Times, is the author of “Chasing Gideon: the Elusive Quest for ...

Fifty years ago on March 18, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision Gideon v. Wainwright, establishing that people accused of crimes have the right to a lawyer regardless of their ...

Karen Houppert has written a book of nightmares. Houppert, a veteran reporter for, among others, The Washington Post and The New York Times, is the author of "Chasing Gideon: the Elusive Quest for ...