Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has approved a $20 hourly pay raise for public defenders in an effort to end their ongoing ...

Dozens of criminal cases are being dismissed in Massachusetts and other states as public defenders refuse to take on new cases until they get a pay raise.

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a funding bill that includes a pay raise for public defenders as part of an effort to end a ...

More than 100 criminal cases in Boston, including with serious charges such as domestic violence, have been thrown out due to ...

Over 100 criminal cases in Massachusetts have been thrown out due to an ongoing work stoppage by disgruntled lawyers who ...

From Oregon to Massachusetts, states are struggling to maintain a roster of attorneys to take on public defense cases. The ...

Seeking higher pay, lawyers for indigent defendants won’t take new clients. As a result, judges must dismiss cases against ...

As the courts are ground to a halt with a work stoppage, is it time for the state to change its public defender system?

Leaders on Beacon Hill also floated structural changes aimed at heading off future work stoppages like the one that has ...

BOSTON — Defendants are being released in Massachusetts in the wake of a prolonged dispute over pay for the state’s public defenders, and one of those set free was charged with a serious crime.

More than 120 defendants in Massachusetts have had their charges — ranging from assault to drug possession — dropped after ...