PDS In The News

Nov 08, 2021 |

Transfer of defendants at D.C. jail to begin Monday after inspection found unacceptable conditions

Nov 03, 2021 |

400 Inmates to be Removed from DC Jail Facility After Inspection

Aug 02, 2021 |

D.C. wants to take back parole from the feds. But it’s taken almost no action as deadline looms.

Jun 09, 2021 |

PDS to Receive the Washington Lawyers' Committee's Alfred McKenzie Award

May 19, 2021 |

Director of Embattled D.C. Crime Lab Stepping Down

May 04, 2021 |

PDS Alumnus David Reiser of Zuckerman Spaeder Will Receive the D.C. Bar's 2021 Brennan Award Winner

Apr 28, 2021 |

PDS Director Avis E. Buchanan Receives Servant of Justice Award

Mar 29, 2021 |

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has recommended PDS alumna Jia Cobb to President Biden for the vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Congratulations, Jia!

Feb 11, 2021 |

PDS Alumna Premal Dharia Joins Harvard Law School as Inaugural Executive Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration

Dec 02, 2020 |

PDS Alumni Recognized as Top Lawyers in Washington, D.C. in the December 2020 Issue of Washingtonian

Nov 16, 2020 |

Public Defenders In D.C. Say The U.S. Parole Commission Is Keeping Too Many People Jailed During The Pandemic

Nov 02, 2020 |

Defense Attorneys Are the Best Line of Defense Against the COVID-19 Pandemic for Incarcerated People

Jul 23, 2020 |

Former PDS deputy director Judge Anita Josey-Herring has been appointed Chief Judge of the D.C. Superior Court

Jul 06, 2020 |

Santae Tribble, whose wrongful conviction revealed FBI forensic hair match flaws, dies at 59

Jun 18, 2020 |

Federal Judge Orders Sweeping Reforms to D.C. Jail Conditions During COVID-19

Jun 09, 2020 |

A Call To Action: PUBLIC DEFENDERS MARCH FOR BLACK LIVES

Jun 08, 2020 |

PUBLIC DEFENDERS MARCH FOR BLACK LIVES by Director Avis E. Buchanan

May 11, 2020 |

Barbara Babcock, legal trailblazer who led D.C. Public Defender Service, dies at 81

Apr 27, 2020 |

Legal scholar Barbara Allen Babcock, the first woman member of the Stanford law faculty, has died at 81

Apr 21, 2020 |

Judge orders emergency D.C. jail overhaul of medical, cleaning, ‘social distancing’ practices and defense lawyer access to stem coronavirus from The Washington Post

Apr 16, 2020 |

D.C. jail inmates with coronavirus barred from access to lawyers, family, showers and changes of clothing, inspectors say

Apr 02, 2020 |

Coronavirus-related court actions seek release of D.C. prisoners, psychiatric patients

Mar 30, 2020 |

Public Defender Service, ACLU-DC Challenge D.C. Jail’s Failure to Protect Incarcerated Individuals From COVID-19 Pandemic

Mar 26, 2020 |

U.S. Parole Commission Bends to Demands From Defense Attorneys and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton

Mar 10, 2020 | Washingtonian Magazine

Why DC’s Public Defender Service Is Among the Country’s Best: An interview with Avis Buchanan, who runs the agency.

Jan 29, 2020 |

Claire Blumenson, former PDS fellow and executive director and co-founder of the School Justice Project, to receive the University of Virginia School of Law's Shaping Justice Rising Star Award.

Jan 09, 2020 |

Avis E. Buchanan will be a co-recipient of the 2020 Servant of Justice Award by the Legal Aid Society of D.C.

Dec 17, 2019 | Washington Post

The government wants to move the D.C. public defender’s office. That could be disastrous.

Nov 22, 2019 | Washington Post

Authorities said video showed a man committed murder. He spent 13 days in jail before his defense team proved it didn’t.

Sep 05, 2019 | History News Network

Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice

Sep 04, 2019 | The Institute of Politics at Harvard University

Internship Reflections: Maya Jenkins '21

Oct 28, 2018 | The Washington Post

Local man (PDS Supervising Staff Attorney Jeffrey Stein) wins 2018 Marine Corps Marathon; 2015 winner takes women’s division

Apr 23, 2018 | Law Students in Court

PDS Director Avis E. Buchanan Receives the 2018 Law Students in Court Celebration of Service Award

Dec 04, 2017 | Washington Post

Civil Rights Attorney Charles Ogletree’s Mind Is A Weapon. Now, It’s Fighting Him.

Oct 27, 2017 | The Washington Post

Judge Blasts District Agency for Treatment of Defendants with Mental Illness (The Washington Post)

Mar 24, 2017 | The Washington Post

Forensic Errors Trigger Reviews of D.C. Crime Lab Ballistics Unit, Prosecutors Say

Sep 08, 2016 | The Washington Post

D.C. Lets Some People With Outstanding Warrants Do a ‘Safe Surrender’ at Court

Aug 02, 2016 | CNN

Charges Dropped in Chandra Levy Murder

Jun 29, 2016 | The White House

President Obama Nominates Jason D. Tulley to Serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Jun 16, 2016 | National Geographic

How Science Is Putting a New Face on Crime Solving

Apr 26, 2016 | Huffington Post

Expanding the Role of Public Defenders in Reentry: Improving Public Safety, Protecting the Rights of Formerly Incarcerated People

Mar 20, 2016 | The Washington Post

A New Rule Could Help Ensure That Prosecutors Share Info With The Defense

Mar 17, 2016 | D.C. Bar

Avis E. Buchanan Honored With Thurgood Marshall Award

Mar 09, 2016 | Washington Post

A Familiar Story: D.C. Police Conduct Violent Home Raids Based on Scant Evidence

Mar 09, 2016 | Washington Post (Editorial Board)

The District Police’s Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

Feb 29, 2016 | Washington Post

Judge Orders D.C. to Pay $13.2 Million in Wrongful FBI Hair Conviction Case (PDS Client Santae A. Tribble)

Dec 10, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight Science

DNA Evidence Has A Dark Side (featuring PDS alumna Erin Murphy)

Nov 25, 2015 | The Washington Post

D.C. Court Considers How To Screen Out ‘Bad Science’ In Local Trials

Nov 22, 2015 | The Washington Post

27 Years Locked Up For A Crime He Didn’t Commit

Nov 20, 2015 | WAMU 88.5 American University Radio

She Was A Foster Kid. Now She's A D.C. Judge Overseeing The Foster System.

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