Highlights From an Evening With Nashville's Public Defenders

My story in this week's soon-to-be-expired print issue is on Nashville's public defenders, the under-resourced lawyers who uphold your right to have an attorney even if you can't afford one. The piece focuses on Defend Nashville, the Metro Public Defenders Office's new initiative aimed at making the office a more public player in the ongoing discussion about the criminal justice system and its flaws, which they see up close every day.