Federal Public and Community Defenders is the national network of federal defender organizations that provides criminal defense and related services in federal court for people who cannot afford counsel. It also supports training, sentencing advocacy, and policy work on behalf of federal defenders nationwide.
Criminal justice and sentencing reform, indigent defense funding and administration, constitutional due process and civil liberties, pretrial detention and bail, capital defense, immigration-related criminal defense, and juvenile/mental health diversion and reentry-related policies.
Primarily funded through federal appropriations and judiciary-administered Criminal Justice Act defender services funding, with additional support through grants and related public-defense program funding.
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; Defender Services Office; Sentencing Resource Counsel; federal public defender and community defender offices nationwide; Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys.
Judiciary-affiliated public defense organization and nonprofit legal services network
