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The backlog of cases in Virginia’s circuit court system worsened during the pandemic. Some people have been jailed for more than a year as they wait for their…
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The backlog of cases in Virginia’s circuit court system worsened during the pandemic. Some people are jailed more than a year as they wait for their court date, according to records requested from several jails across the state.
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The backlog of cases in Virginia’s circuit court system worsened during the pandemic. Some people are jailed more than a year as they wait for their court date, according to records requested from several jails across the state.
During their senior year as computer science majors at the University of Chicago in 2019, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra, now both 24, partnered on a class project requiring them to generate a business idea involving technology and develop it throughout the quarter. After deciding they wanted to find a way to address the crisis of underfunded and overworked public defenders, they reached out to the Cook County, Illinois, public defender's office to see how they could potentially be of help.