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Getting to Know the PACDL
Foundation for Justice
Michael J. Engle
s a PACDL member, did you know that there is a PACDL
Foundation for Justice? Well, if not please let me make the
necessary introduction. The PACDL Foundation for Justice
was formed in 2017 as a 501(c)(3) public-interest organization
dedicated to restoring the qualities of balance and effectiveness
to the administration of justice. The Foundation seeks to
strengthen the criminal justice system in Pennsylvania through
education, advocacy, and contributing thought leadership and
research. As you likely know, Pennsylvania is the last state in the
nation that does not provide state funding for indigent defense.
Instead, the Commonwealth shifts the burden of funding and
administering indigent defense services to county governments
leading to chronic underfunding and understaffing. In other
words, the burden to ensure that individuals accused of crimes are
effectively represented is financially supported by local taxpayers
and is maintained through 67 counties with divergent financial
resources and practices.
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The Foundation proposes to advocate for state funding
to ensure that regardless of where indigent individuals face
allegations of criminal misconduct that they will be represented
by highly effective legal counsel with access to adequate resources
to provide a high-quality defense. This campaign seeks to address
two important deficits through education scholarships for
criminal defense attorneys and a research, polling, and advocacy
initiative to create state funding for indigent defense. Scholarship
funding will allow Pennsylvania's criminal defense attorneys
to attend relevant and high-quality training through PACDL.
Additionally, the campaign will provide the funding for the
Foundation to conduct research, polling and advocacy supporting
the introduction of a Public Defense legislation to determine the
resources and support necessary to ensure a structurally sound
system that allows professional independence of public defenders.
More specifically, the study will also consider adequacy-whether
sufficient resources, both State and local, are being committed to
meet established performance standards.
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