New York County Defender Services

The city’s top legal defense organizations want state lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo to keep criminal justice reforms at the top of their to-do list as they prepare for next year’s legislative session.Read the Article

With the 2020 legislative session only weeks away, NYC defenders call on the state legislature to pass 20 critical and urgent reforms related to policing, due process, prison and jail conditions, and parole.Read the LetterDownload PDF

NYCDS published a new data-driven report about a policy relatively unique to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office - charging repeat shoplifting offenses as felonies, exposing people to long prison sentences. The new report "Four Years in Prison for Four Pairs of Socks" explores the human and fiscal costs of this unjust practice.Read the ReportDownload PDF