Stories

Stories told from the perspectives of Advocates, Public
Defenders, clients, and more.

New Jersey Office of the Public Defender and PFJ Team Up to Advance Collaborative, Holistic Defense Model in New Jersey

PFJ and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender Announce Partnership
Read Full Story

Fresh Starts: Client Advocate Latoya White on Delaware's Community Resource Fair

Client Advocates Latoya White and Ryan Cieslukowski helped organize an extremely successful community resource fair with the Food Bank of Delaware and the Delaware Department of Justice. Here's what it took.
Read Full Story

Iowa Client Advocates make the news

PFJ Client Advocates with the Linn County Advocate were featured on KCRG's six o'clock news
Read Full Story

Santa Cruz advocates in the news

As Santa Cruz transforms how it provides public defense, PFJ client advocates play a key role in the movement.
Read Full Story

This Ride Could Change Your Life

Read Full Story

Delco Advocates featured on NPR

The amazing client advocate team in Delaware County, Pennsylvania was featured in March by WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR station.
Read Full Story

Small Tasks, Big Results

Read Full Story

Walking Out With Housing And A Job

Read Full Story

PFJ's Tribal Defense Team in the News

Read Full Story

Eliminating Incarceration 87% of the Time

Our staggering new data on mitigation
Read Full Story

Attorneys Weigh In on PFJ

Across the country, PFJ Advocates are earning attorney accolades
Read Full Story

PFJ Philadelphia Makes the News

Partners for Justice is expanding to Philly, bringing ‘bureaucracy doulas’ to the court system
Read Full Story

PFJ LA In The News!

Meet our client Jasmin
Read Full Story

Well-Equipped Public Defenders Can Help Reduce Recidivism

In a perspective with Law360, co-founder Emily Galvin-Almanza makes the case for defenders as a vital anti-recidivism resource
Read Full Story

Congratulations to our Delco Team!

Advocates in Delco Earn Statewide Praise
Read Full Story

From University of Idaho to Tyre Nichols, here's what we get wrong about public safety

An analysis of what we get wrong in safety policy
Read Full Story

Incarcerated People Face a Higher Risk from Hurricanes

Climate change's first impact will be felt by those incarcerated
Read Full Story

To prevent wrongful convictions, invest in public defense solutions

Defenders stand between people & the nightmare of wrongful conviction
Read Full Story

Memo to Policymakers: Don’t Let Emotion Drive Crime Policy

Feelings about facts are not as good as facts themselves.
Read Full Story

Delco Public Defender’s Office to join forces with national Partners for Justice

WHYY covered PFJ's next lauch
Read Full Story

Mental Health Matters

Advocates Carolina Arango and Carly Frieders on why mental health matters
Read Full Story

Advocate Ivy Harris on Judge Jackson's nomination

Ivy Harris on KBJ
Read Full Story

Derwyn Bunton

Orleans Chief Defender Derwyn Bunton
Read Full Story

Changing Paths to Power

Stop making prosecution a pre-requisite to power
Read Full Story

PFJ in the ABA Journal

10 Questions with Emily Galvin Almanza
Read Full Story

Victories in Yolo

New to the job but already making an impact
Read Full Story

Unforgiving Towing Fines Deepen Inequality

Towing fees are intractable--and cementing poverty.
Addie Gilson
Oakland, California
Read Full Story

On Yom Kippur, a Return

In a season of reflection and renewal, what can the past reveal about how we engage with our present?
Emily Galvin Almanza
Read Full Story

Public Defenders Can Do More

PFJ in the Washington Post
Emily Galvin-Almanza, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Read Full Story

What Persistence Looks Like in Finding Liberty

The systems we rely on don't work. So Advocates work harder.
Read Full Story

Courtrooms are Dehumanizing and Toxic. But Judges Can Change Their Space.

"The language of courtroom proceedings also works to otherize and separate these people from their humanity."
Emily Galvin Almanza, Founder and Co-Executive Director
National
Read Full Story

How Good Policies Fail & What We’re Doing About It

"On his own, the client would not have been able to navigate all these challenges successfully."
Read Full Story

Alice

"The Advocate made a successful case for Alice."
Read Full Story

Brendon Woods

“In short, these advocates have been game changers.”
Brendon Woods, Alameda County Public Defender
Oakland, California
Read Full Story

Showing up for Love and Justice

"With love."
Read Full Story

Break the cycle of re-arrest

"PFJ Advocate was able to break the cycle of re-arrest."
Read Full Story

Affordable housing

"Returning to homelessness would be lethal for him."
Read Full Story

Harris County Public Defender's Office Receives 2024 PFJ Legacy Award

The Harris County Public Defender's Office was given the 2024 PFJ Legacy Award for its commitment and innovation in Collaborative Defense.
Houston, Texas
Read Full Story
MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN

What is the impact?

Learn more about the impact of Partners for Justice in communities across the country.

Learn More