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Category: Criminal Justice

Press Release: PCFJ Joins Bipartisan Calls for Increased Indigent Defense Funding in PA

Posted onMarch 26, 2025April 9, 2025inCategoriesCriminal Justice, Publications

Comments to Court on Republished Criminal Rules re Legal Financial Obligations

Posted onMarch 25, 2025April 9, 2025inCategoriesCriminal Justice, Publications

Letter in Support of SB 752 – Expanding Diversion Programs, Focusing Detention, and Other Evidence-Based Reforms for Youth

Posted onSeptember 13, 2024September 16, 2024inCategoriesCriminal Justice

Letter in Support of SB 751 – Eliminating Practice of “Direct File” for Youth

Posted onSeptember 13, 2024September 16, 2024inCategoriesCriminal Justice

Letter in Support of SB 170 – Standardizing Juvenile Record Expungement Process

Posted onSeptember 13, 2024September 16, 2024inCategoriesCriminal Justice

Press Release: Developments and Continued Challenges in Reform of Indigent Defense Services in Pennsylvania

Posted onJuly 5, 2024July 16, 2024inCategoriesCriminal Justice

Comments to Court re Proposed Criminal Procedural Rules Consistent with Act 163 (2022) (Reduction, Waiver of LFOs)

Posted onApril 22, 2024May 21, 2024inCategoriesCriminal Justice

Press Release: Inaugural Meeting of Statewide Indigent Defense Advisory Committee

Posted onFebruary 26, 2024May 21, 2024inCategoriesCriminal Justice

Press Release: Enactment of Act 34 (2023), State-Based Funding for Indigent Defense Reform

Posted onDecember 20, 2023December 20, 2023inCategoriesCriminal Justice

Second Round of Comments re Court’s Revised Proposed Amendments to PA Criminal Procedural Rules Governing Appointment of Counsel, Purpose of Bail, and Others

Posted onSeptember 7, 2023September 14, 2023inCategoriesCriminal Justice

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P.O. Box 62545
Harrisburg, PA 17106-2545

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