A plan for criminal justice reform that puts a new generation of public defenders front and center in the fight for legal equality Combining knowledge drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and innovative research study in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping reveals the pervasive problems inherent in our current system of public defense, and lays the foundation for how model public defense programs need to work to end mass imprisonment. Public defenders represent over eighty percent of those who engage with the court system, an out of proportion number of whom are poor, non-white people who rely on them to navigate the law on their behalf. Through the story of establishing Gideon’s Guarantee and anecdotes of his time as a protector and teacher, Rapping reanimates the possibility of public protectors serving as a radical bulwark against federal government injustice and a megaphone to magnify the voices of those they serve.
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