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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Only 11 states report having minimum qualifications for lawyers who represent impoverished people facing a lifetime behind bars, according to the nonprofit Sixth Amendment Center. Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska.

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Patients Went to This Isolated Facility for Treatment. Instead, Nearly Two Dozen Were Charged With Crimes.

The Crime Report

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises , along with Capitol News Illinois. On a chilly November morning in 2019, Lutrice Williams, a patient at a state-run mental health center in southern Illinois, was surprised by a visit from a sheriff’s deputy.

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